LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
State-Maintained Life-Boats In Norway
IN nine of the thirteen foreign countries ! which have National Life-boat Services, the Service is voluntarily maintained ! like our own, though, in some cases, with I grants-in-aid from the State. In the remaining five it is...
Category: Articles
Miss Agnes Hilhouse,
Miss Agnes Hilhouse, for many years treasurer of the West Drayton and Uxbridge branch with which she had been associated for 25 years..
Category: Obituaries
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Maggie Murray The four Bronze Medallists arrive at the Festival Pier before the Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards. Full details in the report on page 194 in this issue.
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Category: Photographs
Irb Over the Rocks
THE THANKS of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Bruce Brown, Cyril Williams and John Riley, the crew of the Walmer, Kent, IRB for rescuing four people cut off by the tide. The rescue was considered to be the best...
Category: Services
Antelope
POHTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. At 11 o'clock on the night of the 6th Sept., 1884, the coxswain of the Life-boat, took up his station at the watch-house, so as to be in readiness should the ser- vices of the boat be required, as the wind was...
One of a Series of Six Paintings
One of a series of six paintings prepared in the RNLI display studio at Poole by Hilary Dear and David Simmons for the Indian Chief centenary exhibition at Ramsgate Harbour's Clock House. This painting, by David Simmons, taken from an...
Category: Drawings
Eyedale, of Eyemouth
JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...
Master and commander
An RNLI coxswain must be brave but what else does it take to inspire the confidence and trust of a modern-day crew?
On 9 July 2010, Mike Lawrence was not only in charge of Calshot’s Tyne class Alexander Coutanche but also...
Category: Articles
Cornel (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Minehead, Somerset.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1955, the Tenby coastguard rang up the Tenby life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, bound for Bristol with a cargo of...
The Official Party Including the Duke of Atholl (Far I) and the Lord Mayor of Nottingham
The official party, including the Duke of Atholl (far I.) and the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, aboard Invergordon lifeboat after the naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs