LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eastbourne:
EASTBOURNE: Two 11-year-old boys were rescued by Eastbourne's I6f't I) class inflatable lifeboat on the evening of Thursday, January 7, 1988, after their small dinghy filled with water and began to sink. Their cries for help were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Princess Margaret Being Welcomed at the R.N.L.I, Stand at the International Boat Show By the Then Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, 6.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. Looking on (Centr
Princess Margaret being welcomed at the R.N.L.I, stand at the International Boat Show by the then Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, 6.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. Looking on (centre) is the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., Captain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duchess of Kent at Ramsgate and Broadstairs
THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited Ramsgate and Broadstairs .on the 19th of May. At Ramsgate she opened and named the new landing stage and laid the foundation stone of the extension of the out patient department of...
Category: Articles
Our Life-Boat Men
SEA-TITANS bold, with hearts that know not fear, Though wild waves billows rave, leap and clam'roua No care have they, nor thought of dangers near, When going forth, poor shipwrecked lives to save.
Through gulfs of...
Category: Poetry
Gift from Tasmania
THE Institution has received a gift of £100 from Tasmania for the benefit of the life-boat station at Southend- on-Sea. The donor's aunt lived in Southend for many years and was a contributor to the branch..
Category: Donations
S.S. Seminole
APRIL 25TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 7 P.M. the coastguard reported that a trawler had been mined and torpedoed some four miles from the signal station. The sea was smooth, with a light S.W. wind. The motor life-boat Edward Prince...
A Brave Schoolgirl
A Holiday at Skipsea LAST summer a fifteen-year-old school- girl was holidaying at Skipsea, near Bridlington. Her home was at Baildon near Shipley, and she was staying with her parents at Sea Cabin Bungalow, Green Lane, which stood near the...
Category: Articles
Charlotte and Flora
About 6.30 A.M. on the 20th February signals of distress were shown by some vessels at anchor in the roads. A heavy gale was blowing from the N.W. The Life-boat was launched, and boarded, first of all, the three-masted schooner Charlotte,...
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Category: Advertisement
Boats' Compasses
THE subject of the Mariner's Compass has for many years past been considered a most important one, and has had great attention bestowed on it, especially since the introduction of iron as a material for building ships. Large masses of...
Category: Articles