LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue In Ribble Estuary
THE THANKS of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Harold Parkinson and Mr. Kenneth Smith, of Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire, for a shore boat service in which they saved a yacht and two...
Category: Services
The Power Behind Abersoch!
Nine businessmen, all friends and members of South Caernarfon Yacht Club (and fondly known locally as 'The fat boys'), decided to have a bash in aid of the RNL1 at the end of the 1999 sailing season. A dinner dance with auctions,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Line, Boys Own, Quest and Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. Towards noon on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, the weather grew worse at a time when several local fishing cobles were still at sea. The sea was rough, there was a strong northerly wind, and it was high...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
The Calendar.
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the rescue by...
Category: Advertisement
The President Names the New Southend Boat
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, named the new Southend-on-Sea life-boat on the 17th of May, 1955.
The new life-boat is a gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, the thirtieth which that fund...
Category: Inaugurations
Sepoy Rescue Anniversary
The day bells sang out for Blogg's boys Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed one of the finest hours of Cromer lif eboatmen — led by the renowned Coxswain Henry Blogg.
At 0400 on 13 December 1933,...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 17th Aug., 1854. A Special Meeting of the General Committee was held this day. His Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., President, in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the previous...
Category: Committee
Arthur and Reit Billitt
Arthur and Rcil Billitt, well known through the television gardening programme Clack's Farm, have for many vears donated to the RNLI the proceeds from their car-park at Clack's Farm for one Sunday in everv summer month. They also... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fearless
The Life-boat > Co-operator No. 2 was launched at 12.45 P.M. on the 30th December during a S. W.
\ gale to the assistance of the fishing- boat Fearless, which was observed in distress about four miles off Ilfracombe.<...
Three Souvenir Sellers and Two Competitors (One Fourlegged the Other Two) Pictured at Wootton Creek Branch's Gymkhana
Three souvenir sellers and two competitors (one fourlegged, the other two) pictured at Wootton Creek branch's gymkhana held at Guildford Farm, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight, last summer.
There was beautiful weather and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs