LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gladina
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.0 on the evening of the 13th of May, 1951, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser seemed to have broken down about one mile south-west of Berry Head. Later she was seen to get under way, but at 8.42 the...
Ceremonies
Relief fleet D class A new D class lifeboat provided by the patrons of the Fox & Hounds public house in Surbiton was handed over to the RNLI in Poole on 4 February 1989.
Some of the patrons were present when Mr Vic...
Category: Inaugurations
Past and Present
From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT of August 1892 THE WRECK OF THE EIDER On the night of Sunday 31st January 1892 the four-masted s.s. Eider of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on...
Category: Articles
The Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts
THE first of three life-boats built out of a gift of £33,000, which the Institution has received from its Southern Africa branch,* was named at Beaumaris, Anglesey, on the 23rd of July, 1948, in the presence of a large audience on the...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. Flying Enterprise
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...
Birkenau
On the 18th October the German steamer Birkenau, of Bremerhaven, while bound in ballast from Antwerp to Methil, was caught in a strong northerly gale, with very heavy seas, and driven on to the rocks at Chapel Point, some miles east of...
H.M. Rescue Tug Adept
MARCH 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 1.51 in the afternoon information came from the naval authorities that H.M. Rescue Tug Adept, with a crew of thirty, was aground on Paterson’s Rock, east of Sanda Island, and the motor life-boat...
Pontfield
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.28 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported a vessel awash about five miles N.N.E. from Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.5. A strong N.E. wind...
Round the clock
The Operations Room is hidden away at the top of the charity’s Headquarters building, but it is the nerve centre of the whole RNLI
Until refurbishment in 2008, the walls of this unusual office were lined with whiteboards...
Category: Articles
Sharing the Work—And the Enjoyment—In a Husband and Wife Partnership Alf and Joan Jenkins Are Joint Honorary Secretaries of Truro Branch They Put Their Combin
Sharing the work—and the enjoyment—in a husband and wife partnership, Alf and Joan Jenkins are joint honorary secretaries of Truro branch. They put their combined help behind such enterprising branch activities as a button auction which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs