LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Club's Rescue Boat Anne Bonaventure
TWO MEN SAVED FROM CLUB'S RESCUE BOAT Hastings, Sussex. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that the Hastings and St. Leonards sailing club's rescue boat Anne Bonaventure was in...
Coxswain W. S. Dass, of Longhope
COXSWAIN WILLIAM STEWART DASS, of Longhope, in the Orkneys, died in January of this year. He had retired in 1946, at the age of sixty-eight, after serving for three years as second cox- swain and then over twelve years as...
Category: Obituaries
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1939
" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...
Category: Articles
The S.S. English Trader
Torbay, Devon.—On the 23rd January the s.s. English Trader, of London, ran ashore at the entrance of DartmouthHarbour. The motor life-boat George Shee rescued the fifty-two men on board. Rewards : Bronze second service clasp, vellums, letter...
The French Life-Boat Society. Boat-House With Movable Platform at La Joliette, Marseilles
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
Category: Articles
Mr. Felix Rubie, M.I.N.A., Late Surveyor of Life-Boats
Mr. Felix Rubie, M.I.N.A., who died on 25th February last, had passed the greater part of his life in the service of the Institution. Born in 1862, he was brought up at Cowes, and it was there that he learnt his sailing. He served his...
Category: Obituaries
All hands on deck!
You don’t have to get wet to help save lives at sea.
We need more volunteers to help us raise funds, raise awareness and reduce tragedies. If you can give some time to the RNLI, please get in touch. It doesn’t...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Swan
On the 6th November, at 7 P.M., the same Life-boat put off to the s.s. Swan, of Liverpool, which had gone on Hasborough Sand. With the aid of two steam-tugs, the vessel, which was leaking badly, was taken to Harwich..
The United States Ambassador In London Charles H PriceII (I)
The United States Ambassador in London, Charles H. Price II (I), hosted a reception on October 2 to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the RNLI. HRH Princess Alexandra, accompanied by her husband, the Honourable Angus Ogilvie, was the guest... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fisher Lass, of Douglas
APRIL 16TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
While out fishing the fishing smack Fisher Lass, of Douglas, broke her engine shaft, about nine miles south-east-by-east of Douglas Head. The sea was smooth, with a light wind blowing....