LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
WITH deep regret we have to announce the death, on active service, of Lieut.- Commander H, T. Gartside-Tipping, R.N., a member of the Committee of Management, who was killed in action while in command of the armoured yacht Sanda, on 25th...
Category: Obituaries
New President of the Swedish Life-Boat Society
Mr. Edvard Lithander, President of the Swedish Society for Saving the Shipwrecked, who was one of the Swedish delegates at the International Life-boat Conference in London in 1924, has been compelled through pressure of business and...
Category: Articles
A Direct Hit on the Lifeboathouse and Lifeboat at Tynemouth on April 9 1941 the Heavy Bomb With a Slightly Delayed Fuse Penetrated and Exploded Under the Concrete
A direct hit on the lifeboathouse and lifeboat at Tynemouth on April 9, 1941. The heavy bomb, with a slightly delayed fuse, penetrated and exploded under the concrete floor. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of J. C. H. Cleet. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Dave Kennett Takes the Relief Arun Class Margaret Russell Fraser Across Christchurch Bay Conditions In the Area Were Far Worse During the Bronze Me
Coxswain Dave Kennett takes the Relief Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser across Christchurch Bay. - View image in PDF
Conditions in the area were far worse during the Bronze medal service. (Photo Malory Maltby). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Policemen In IRB Rescue
FOR their part in the rescue of three people from a burning motor boat off Bournemouth, Police Sergeant Douglas H. Carter, aged 43, and Police Constable Arthur E. Farley, aged 46, have received the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum....
Category: Services
Period Costume Is the Order of the Day at Shaldon Village Old Time Fayre
Period costume is the order of the day at Shaldon village old time fayre in Devon. Branch workers who donned period maritime costume when manning their stall were delighted when their souvenir and lottery sales practically doubled as a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 575, 586, 590, the following launches on service were made during the months September to November, 1968, inclusive: Aith,...
Category: Services
The 46Ft 9In Watson Lifeboat Lady Scott (Civil
The 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) launches from the boathouse. - View image in PDF
She was on station from 1949 to 1981. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Medical Arrangements In the Rnli (From Page 131)
(from page 131) later as a basis for a 'newsletter' to bring all honorary medical advisers up to date with current problems. The subjects have included such items as lifelines, retrieving casualties from the water, communications and...
Category: Articles
A New Medal for Gallantry. Bust of the Institution's Founder
Obverse.—Bust of Lieut.-Col. Sir William Hillary, Bt., Founder of the Institution, by Mr. Allan G. Wyon, F.R.B.S. Double Legend: "Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded 1824.
Sir William Hillary, Bt." "... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs