LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Story of the "Trevessa's" Boats
Lloyd's List and Shipping Gazette has just published as a pamphlet the logs kept by the Master and Chief Officer of the Trevessa, during the voyages of the two boats of that vessel after she sank in the Indian Ocean, on 4th June last.<...
Category: Articles
Black Horse Finance
Special rates for RNLI members.
hxample: Borrow O.StX) over # months and the monthly instalment will be 1119.71. Total repayment over (he term £4.309.5f at 14.9% APR. Alternative amounts and repayment periods are...
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RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNU family, past and present
Interrupted nuptials
When Littlestone-on-sea RNLI volunteers Matt and Heather Crittenden decided to hold their wedding ceremony at the...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the S.S. "Ontario," on the Hasborough Sands
THIS fine steamer was totally wrecked on the Hasborough Sands, off the Norfolk coast, on the 20th October last, having grounded there on the Sunday previously. She belonged to Liverpool, and was 2,880 tons burden, and was commanded by a...
Category: Services
When the Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club Staged An R.N.L.I, Weekend In May, 1970,
When the Felixstowe Ferry sailing club staged an R.N.L.I, weekend in May, 1970, during which they raised £700 for the life-boat service, Sir Alec Rose, who as a lone yachtsman sailed round the world, presented cups. Here he is shown... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services (1)
St Mary's Scilly Isles Some idea of the conditions during the Bronze Medal service by the Arun class Robert Edgarto the yacht Sacaro/ecan be gauged from these photographs. The pictures show the moment the 25ft Folkboat was overwhelmed...
Category: Services
Ayesha
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1955, a man who had just come in from sea in his fishing boat told the life-boat coxswain that he had seen a yacht aground near the West Gunfleet buoy, but that he had been...
Hong Kong Branch
To mark the First Year of operations of the new Penlee Arun'Class Lifeboat, the R.N.LB.
Mabel Alice and the Hong Kong Branch of the R.N.L.I,the Branch has produced a Limited-Edition Print as shown.
The...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Beemsterdijk (1)
JANUARY 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. January 26th was a Sunday, and Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus.Doc., organist at St. David’s Cathedral and the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, received a telephone message at the Cathedral during...
Arbel
APRIL 13TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. Later it was learned that the flares were Holmes lights of the lifebuoys of the Belgian steamer Arbel, of Antwerp, which were...