LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Ways of Raising Money
FOR some years yacht clubs and golf clubs have been holding competitions, for which all the entry money has been donated to the Institution. The prizes for yacht races have been pennants, and for golf competitions spoons. The Institution is...
Category: Donations
Kate and Violet, of Bridlington
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 3.5 p.m.
on 6th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble had broken down one mile south west of the North Smithie buoy. The life-boat William Henry and...
Victory for the Girls
Wives and girlfriends of Llandudno lifeboat crew showed off their skills during a charity football match against the local police squad in May.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven
By the death, on 3rd June last, of Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven, at the age of fifty-seven, the Institution loses one of its most distinguished Coxswains. He was appointed Bowman in 1911. A year later he became Second Coxswain, and...
Category: Obituaries
At Poole on Tuesday July 12 the Duke of Atholl (R) Presented a Framed Letter of Thanks
At Poole on Tuesday July 12 The Duke of Atholl (r) presented a framed letter of thanks to Mr Colin Ganderton, managing director of J. John Masters, which, celebrating its centenary, has given more than £54,000 to the RNLI. The Duke had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thousands of People Attended Hoylake
Thousands of people attended Hoylake open day last August which had as its peak of entertainment a display by the RAF's world famous Red Arrows, seen here just as they pass over Hovlake lifeboat. Royal Marines dropped by parachute from a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Liberty Ship, The American Motor Vessel George Hawley
JANUARY 21ST. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities wanted the Sennen Cove life-boat to go to a vessel four miles south-bywest of the Longships. A light northerly...
Queen Victoria, of South Shields
On the 3rd De- cember, during a strong N.E. gale, the brig Queen Victoria, of South Shields, was totally wrecked on the Barnard Sand. The life-boat put off, and succeeded in saving one of the crew from the rigging. The remainder, 7 in number...
The Sailing Boat Roustabout
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 3rd January, 1939, the sailing boat Roustabout, of Lowestoft, left harbour with a crew of four. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain, who had gone to the coastguard lookout, saw the boat drifting...
The British Railways Ferry Princess Victoria
On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.