LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Main Picture - Lifeboats from All Over the World
Main picture - Lifeboats from all over the world on demonstration at sea during conference week: (front) Dutch Valentyn class lifeboat, Watersporr. (middle) Norway's Emmy Dyvi class, Bergen Kreds; and (back), Finland's Rescue Cruiser... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When Mrs Anne Armstrong Former American Ambassador to Britain Visited Plymouth Lifeboat Station In February Coxswain John Dare Welcomed Her Aboard the 44'
When Mrs Anne Armstrong, former American Ambassador to Britain, visited Plymouth lifeboat station in February, Coxswain John Dare welcomed her aboard the 44' Waveney lifebout Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II with a yellow rose posy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
George Brown and Wave
On the 15th of April, at 10 A.M., during a heavy gale at S., the schooner George Brown, of Montrose, bound from Newcastle to that port, was wrecked on the Annat Bank. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, pushed out of the river through a heavy...
Summary of Accounts for 1979
A VISUAL REPRESENTATION Full accounts are available from Poole headquarters and a detailed report of the annual general meeting held on May 22 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, will be published in the autumn issue O/THE LIFEBOAT.
Category: Accounts
Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Names Rnlb Rotary Service Dover
DOVER: OCTOBER 30, 1979 IT WAS PARTICULARLY FITTING that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother should agree to visit Dover to name the new lifeboat, for she is not only a Patron of the RNLI, but earlier last year she was installed as...
Category: Inaugurations
Boy Arthur and Ocean Vanguard
Amble, Northumberland.—The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at half past eleven in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1948, as two fishing cobles were overdue and a moderate west-south-west gale was blowing...
Opportunity
FILEY, Tuesday January 7, 1986: the weather was worsening with a south-easterly near gale, force 7, and a rough sea when the fishing coble, Opportunity, was seen to break down on the weather side of Filey Brigg.
Another...
This Is My Paddington, Who Visited Space Camp Alabama, US
Dear Editor This is my Paddington, who visited Space Camp Alabama, US, with me for a two-week advanced academy programme. He had a go in the flight simulator and was even in a mock helicopter escape – his rubber ring came in handy! He liked... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At Newquay Cornwall Jubilee Carnival Members of the Ladies' Guild Wore Their New 'Uniforms'—Red Pleated Skirts White Polo Sweaters and Gloves and Navy Blazers A
At Newquay, Cornwall, Jubilee Carnival members of the ladies' guild wore their new 'uniforms'—red pleated skirts, white polo sweaters and gloves, and navy blazers and hats trimmed with red, white and blue ribbon; they were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk...
Category: Services