LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
WHEN I WAS FOUR...
0 My first contribution to the R.N.L.I, was made at the age of approximately 4 years in 1897, this being on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. There was a procession through the town...
Category: Correspondence
Siglinde
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 5.0 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a visitor reported to the police that a barge seemed to be in difficulties off Holland Haven. The police informed the coastguard at Clacton, but as the Clacton...
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Category: Advertisement
The French Fishing Boat Notre Dame des Victoires
Fenit, and Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May,1956, the Dingle Civic Guard tele- phoned the Fenit life-boat station to sav that two men were stranded on a high ledge of a cliff under the old tower at Ballydavid...
New Ways of Raising Money
An attractive girl dressed in a Nell Gwynn costume has been seen selling oranges on behalf of the Institution at a number of towns in the south and south-west of England where life-boats are stationed. She is Miss Sue Peters, and the oranges...
Category: Donations
A New Type of Motor Life-Boat for Liverpool
Under the heading " More Motor Life-boats " the following letter from the Secretary of the Institution appeared in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce on the 22nd April, 1920 :.— SIR,—I have read with much pleasure in a recent issue...
Category: Articles
Miniature Arun:
Miniature Arun: this model of Humber lifeboat, City of Bradford IV, took its creator, Brian Sumner, a winter of long nights to complete.
The hull is carved from solid spruce and the rest is made from plywood and anything... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Voices
VOICes ‘The lifeboat volunteers make me proud to be British.’ Murray Walker The voice of Formula One tells Rory Stamp of his admiration for the RNLI’s crews ‘I’ve always had immeasurable respect for them,’ says Murray Walker as he watches...
Category: Articles
The Motor Yawl Vigilant
A YACHT MISSING Sunderland, Co. Durham.—The local motor yawl Vigilant, with a crew of four, had gone out from Sunderland on January 1st, 1947, and on the 4th, as nothing had been heard of her, anxiety was felt for her safety and the motor...
P.L.M. 25
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935,...