LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) Lifeboats Are Built In Commercial Boatyards Tinder the Supervision of Rnli Technical Officers
(Below) Lifeboats are built in commercial boatyards tinder the supervision of RNLI technical officers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Re-count. . .
The letter from the honorary secretary of Bodmin and District branch, published in the autumn 1976 issue of THE LIFEBOAT, amused us all here in Trowbridge because the report closely followed our own flag day...
Category: Correspondence
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Category: Advertisement
Lady Harrison's Gift
THE naming ceremony of a motor life-boat at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, took place on 25th June. The life-boat is a gift from Lady Harrison in memory of her late husband, Sir Heath Harrison, Bt., the shipowner, of Cheshire and Hampshire, who...
Category: Donations
Carved Wood Stern Ornament from the Indian Chief Which Was Wrecked on the Long Sands on 5Th January, 1881, Survivors Being Taken Off By the Ramsgate, Kent, Life-Boat Next Day. the Orname
Carved wood stern ornament from the Indian Chief which was wrecked on the Long Sands on 5th January, 1881, survivors being taken off by the Ramsgate, Kent, life-boat next day. The ornament—it commemorates a famous rescue—is preserved at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Daring innovation
To his friends and colleagues, David Stogdon appeared to live entirely without fear yet he was a survivor of at least two near-death experiences. In 1940, during the Second World War, the destroyer Brazen sank underneath the young naval...
Category: Articles
Belinda
Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1958, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down a mile and a half off Ramsgate. At 1.4 the life-boat Michael and Lily...
The Search for Edward May
AT 4.45 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1954, Edward May, a 44- year-old steel worker from Scunthorpe, waded into the sea at Cap Gris Nez.
He planned to swim to Dover unes- corted and thereby become the first man to...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats In October, November and December, 1953. 85 Lives Rescued
OCTOBER DURING October life-boats were launched 42 times and rescued 16 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO SHETLAND ISLAND Aith, Shetlands.—At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October, 1953, the doctor at...
Category: Services
Premier
Eight-hour service for Lerwick's Arun in appalling conditions Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian spent nearly eight hours at sea in hurricane-force winds and huge seas on 12 December 1990 in what proved to be a tragically...