LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Stamps
WHETHER THEY DROP on to the doormat with a welcome letter, or arrive on the office desk with the next urgent problem, special issues of stamps make a cheerful start to any day.
The sea is a good and popular subject and in...
Category: Articles
Blanche Maguerite, of Dundalk
Early in the morning of the 15th January, during thick weather, the barque Blanche Mar- guerite, of Dunkirk, and bound to that port, was wrecked on a reef off Brooke Chine. The Brooke Life-boat, George and Anne, was launched, and, under the...
Life-Boats and Life-Saving Apparatus In the United States of America
WE have in previous numbers of the Life-boat Journal given accounts of the Life-saving Institutions of France and Germany, and have referred to those in other maritime countries of Europe. We feel sure that equal interest will be felt in a...
Category: Articles
Lt-Commander the Hon Creville Howard Vrd Rnr a Vice-President of the Rnli Nearest the Lifeboat Picture With Mrs James Penrose Daughter-In-Law of Comman
Lt-Commander The Hon. Creville Howard. VRD, RNR, a vice-president of the RNLI, nearest the lifeboat picture, with Mrs James Penrose, daughter-in-law of Commander Bernard Penrose of the Cornish Lifeboat Appeal Committee, and Commander L. F. L... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...
All Three 70Ft Clyde Class (Right) Were Withdrawn from Service During the Summer of 1988 T
all three 70ft Clyde class (right) were withdrawn from service during the summer of 1988. The Clydes will be sold out of service and two of the four McLachlans will be retained for use as boarding boats at Number (Clyde photo courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Greetings from cyberspace!
For all those birthdays and other special events in your 2011 diary, why not send an RNLI ecard?
Available in a range of designs to suit every occasion, our ecards are fun, funky and environmentally friendly. They cost...
Category: Articles
The Goodwins Spare a Ship
As described on page 126, the Goodwin Sands seldom spare vessels that run aground. But occasionally they are lucky. At 3.36 p.m. on 30th March, 1971, the Walmer honorary secretary picked up a message reporting that the tanker Panther of...
Category: Services
September (1)
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 30th June, 1941, two women with two small children were cut off by the rising tidebetween the baths and wooden jetty at Hoylake. The weather was fine and the sea calm. Their plight was seen from the...
Category: Services
Michael
Force 11 gusting12 HEARING FROM Fishguard Coastguard at 2200 on Monday, January 13, that Michael of Famagusta, whose engine had broken down, was drifting about 18 miles off the entrance to Waterford, Dunmore East honorary secretary gave...