LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RNLI’s Very Last Arun Class Lifeboat On Service (right) Is Finally Withdrawn, Replaced At Calshot By A Former Relief Tyne Class (left)
The RNLI’s very last Arun class lifeboat on service (right) is finally withdrawn, replaced at Calshot by a former relief Tyne class (left). The first Arun, named Arun, was built in 1971 and had a wooden hull. The last, Duke of Atholl, was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
SALVAGE PAYMENTS TO LIFEBOATS' CREWS.
As it often happens that the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are the means of saving vessels and their cargoes from destruction, or of materially contributing...
Category: Articles
The Service to the S.S. "Hopelyn."
By Commander £. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
ON Friday, 20th October, at about 11 A.M., I arrived at the harbour at Gorleston. A strong gale was blowing from the N.E....
Category: Services
Saturday night, Sunday morning
An unconventional launch followed by 8 hours at sea in near gale force conditions – ‘business as usual,’ say the crew of The Lizard lifeboat, Cornwall.
At midnight on Saturday 11 September the crew assembled on the village...
Category: Articles
Iris
— The pleasure yacht Iris, of Chester, was seen to be in a dangerous position in the breakers near Portmadoc Bar on the loth August. The Coxswain launched the Life-boat and proceeded to the assistance of the crew. He asked them if they...
Co-operative Funeralcare
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Stromness, Orkneys. At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the body of a lighthouse keeper, who had been missing for over a week from Sule-Skerry, had been found south of Dunas...
The President Names the New Southend Boat
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, named the new Southend-on-Sea life-boat on the 17th of May, 1955.
The new life-boat is a gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, the thirtieth which that fund...
Category: Inaugurations
Rnli news
Look and learn Thousands of people visited Poole Headquarters during Open Days in July. Holidaymakers who knew little or nothing about the RNLI came away with a elear picture of the role of the modern lifeboat service. Those who have been...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Ogmore
PADSTOW.—On the 24th November, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched to the aid of a vessel showing signals of distress, during a strong N.E. gale and heavy sea. She had brought up in a dangerous position on the inner edge of the Doom Bar...