LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pwllheli - D Class the Lion
The Reverend R. F. Donaldson conducts the service of dedication for Pwllheli's new D class lifeboat outside the lifeboat house on 29 April. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Easter Sailing By Giles
'Your wife nailing you and your boat up for Easter is hardly a case for calling in the RNLI.' by courtesy of the Daily Express, April 24, 1973, and Giles.
Category: Drawings
A Motor Fishing Boat
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 27th October, 1937. A motor fishing boatwas in difficulties owing to an engine breakdown, but another fishing boat went to her help.—Rewards, £17 14s..
A Fishing Boat (4)
APRIL 4TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
A fishing boat was missing, but she was towed in by another fishing boat. - Rewards, £17 14s..
None (30)
JUNE 10TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A man and a boy had landed on Dartmouth Mewstone and their boat had drifted away, but they were taken off by another boat from Dartmouth. - Rewards, £2 14s. 6d..
A Speed Boat (1)
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - RAMSGATE, AND MARGATE, KENT. A speed boat had been reported missing, but she was found by a motor boat and towed to Ramsgate. - Rewards : Ramsgate, £11 19s. ; Margate, £12 14s..
Notes of the Quarter
THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...
Category: Articles
Capt. R. L. Hamer, D.S.O., R.N.
CAPTAIN RICHARD LLOYD HAMER, D.S.O., R.N., who died on the 16th of December, 1951, at the age of 67, was for twenty years in the service of the Institution. When he came to it in 1925, he had served for many years, before and during the war...
Category: Obituaries
Crew of the Porthdinllaen Lifeboat In the 1950S.
When some of these award winners joined the RNLI, crews wore oilskins, sou'westers and kapok lifejackets, like those worn by the crew of the Porthdinllaen lifeboat in the 1950s. The Waveney class lifeboat Ipp22~23) was yet to be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Proba
During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February, the schooner Proba, of Bideford, whilst bound from Charlestown to London with a cargo of china clay stranded on the Brake Sands. Information of the casualty reached North Deal at 9.45 A.M.,...