LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy from a Whitley Bomber
OCTOBER 11TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 9.55 in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a rubber dinghy, with two men on board, was in the sea eleven miles E.S.E. of Skegness. A strong northerly wind was...
For Major Osman Gabriel (Right) of Hove Who Donated Her to the RNLI the Successful Selfrighting Trials Carried Out at Littlehampton on 8th September 1972 on The
For Major Osman Gabriel (right) of Hove, who donated her to the R.N.L.I., the successful selfrighting trials carried out at Littlehampton on 8th September, 1972, on the Pother class life-boat of that name which he witnessed must have been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dudley Branch
Following the loss of Penlee lifeboat in 1981, Dudley branch launched an appeal as a tribute to Mrs Mary Richards, mother of the late Coxswain Trevelyan Richards. A cheque for the £5,396.83 raised, which will go towards the purchase of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A £338 Cheque Is Handed to Cullercoats Honorary Secretary
A £338 cheque is handed to Cullercoats honorary secretary, Mr R. J. Taylor, by Mr E. Armstrong manager of the Bay Hotel. Between them stand Crew Members Raymond Taylor, David Blackman and Geoffrey Nugent who had helped raised some of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Hewitt Clark
Gold Medal for Coxswain Hewitt Clark of Lerwick for the service in which a 15-man crew were rescued from a 3.000 ton cargo vessel in 50ft breaking seas and horrendous conditions.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Day In London. The Prince of Wales's Tour of the Depots
LAST year the Prince of Wales, as President of the Institution, issued a special appeal through the Press, for a generous response. This year he took a still more intimate part in the Day by visiting a number of depots, and personally...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Three rescued after yacht is rolled in storm force winds A trocious weather conditions greeted Courtmacsherry Harbour's Trent class lifeboat when she put to sea on Saturday 24 October, headed for a yacht which had been capsized and...
Category: Services
Hildegard Knuppel
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.10 a.m. on 26th February, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men who had arrived in Dunmore by car had informed them that a boat was firing distress signals above Creadon Head. It...
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) Founded 4th March, 1824.—Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
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Category: Articles
Another Record Year for the Life-Boats
BOAT OWNERS were told the truth about salvage claims by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., at the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 9th April, 1967. He said it...
Category: Articles