LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On 21st June, 1970—The 30th Anniversary of the Evacuation of Dunkirk,
On 21st June, 1970—the 30th anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk, in May/June, 1940—a fleet of little ships of Dunkirk fame gathered in a huge circle off the coast of Thanet. Here a French sailor is shown casting a wreath from the town... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (79)
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
Fishing Boats
FRASERBURGH, N.B. — On the 25th August one of the most severe storms ever experienced at this season of the year prevailed here. A report had been circulated among the fishermen on the previous day that a storm was at hand, and on that day...
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Stranded wildfowlers TWO WILDFOWLERS stranded by the flooding tide on Black Rocks, south of Troon Harbour, were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by Clyde Coastguard at 0933 on Monday December 8, 1980. A third...
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Category: Advertisement
Lifeboat People
Birthday Honours Knights Bachelor John Henry Loveridge, CBE, Bailiff of Guernsey. Sir John is vice-president of the Guernsey branch.
QBE Roy Ernest Bailhache, Jurat, Royal Court of Jersey. Jurat Bailhache is chairman of the...
Category: Articles
The Institution and the War
WE have the pleasure of giving a list of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of a Permanent Crew, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His Majesty's Forces...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1879
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD PRIVY SEAL, PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter
The last number of THE LIFE-BOAT gave the news that the Institution's deficit in 1967 was likely to exceed £400,000. This has now been confirmed, and the accounts showed that the final figure was £400,084.
The...
Category: Articles
Sartorious
Injured man A YACHT AGROUND in Worbarrow Bay was reported to the deputy launching authority of Weymouth lifeboat station at 0006 on Sunday September 24, 1978, and at 0030 the 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell, with Coxswain Alfred Pavey in...