LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Old Battleship Foudroyant
BLACKPOOL.—The old battleship Fou,- droyant, at one time Lord Nelson's flagship, which had been towed round the coast for the purpose of exhibition, while at anchor off Blackpool on the 16th June was overtaken by a sudden gale. At about...
Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.
ON 31st December, 1938, Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., retired from the service of the Institu- tion, having been chief inspector of life-boats since August, 1930.
Commander Drury, whose early years were spent...
Category: Articles
(Below) Mrs Susan Hunter-Pease Wife of Mr Charles Hunter-Pease the Sates and Marketing Director of Volvo Concessionaires
(below) Mrs Susan Hunter-Pease, wife of Mr Charles Hunter-Pease, the Sates and Marketing Director of Volvo Concessionaires, names the new Mersey Class lifeboat Lifetime Care at a ceremony at the RNLI's Poole depot. The lifeboat is the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) 54-004',? Hull Was Broken Out of Its Mould Last September. There to Help With the Ceremony of Opening the Mould Was Councillor T. E. Hall, Ma, Lord Mayor Of
(Below) 54-004',? hull was broken out of its mould last September. There to help with the ceremony of opening the mould was Councillor T. E. Hall, MA, Lord Mayor of Bradford, seen (left) inspecting the workmanship with Lieut.-Commander W... - View image in PDF
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Contents
The Autumn 1990 Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 513 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
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St. Clears
JULY 15TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2 P.M. news was received that the steamer, St. Clears, of Newport, of 8,000 tons, had stranded at Whitberry Ness in a fog, and at 2.5 P.M. the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched. A...
Life-Boat Families. The Cables of Aldeburgh, Suffolk
By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.
The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...
Category: Articles
The Scottish Life-Boat Council
THE Scottish Council held the first of its meetings for 1928 on 26th March, in Glasgow. The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the Council, presided, and there were representatives present from Glasgow, Buckie, Perth, Greenock...
Category: Meetings
Seventy-Four Rescued
Helping lascars of the " Magdapur's " crew ashore. They were covered with oil. - View image in PDF
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Pamir
Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...