LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Port Erin (Isle of Man) Life-Boat Returning from the Rescue
(See page 216). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dr. J. Iredale, Honorary Secretary, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
By the death of Dr. J. Iredale, of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, on 8th Sep- tember last, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. Dr.
Iredale became the Honorary Secretary of the Station at Mablethorpe...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...
Category: Advertisement
Radio-Telephony In Life-Boats
AN article by my predecessor on the use of wireless in life-boats appeared in the number of this journal for December, 1937. It was then eleven years since the Institution had begun its experiments with wireless by installing a...
Category: Articles
Edward Bridges
The largest and newest boat in the collection Edward Bridges (Civil Service and PO No.37) is one of the early wood-built Arun class, the remainder of which are still in service. The Aruns are inherently self righting because of the large... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Veda Morris Names the Relief D Class Lifeboat C John Morris In Memory of Her Late Husband.
Mrs Veda Morris names the relief D class lifeboat C John Morris in memory of her late husband.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Institution Mourns
A GREAT loss has, within the last few weeks, fallen on the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the Life-boat Cause has been deprived of a strong supporter and constant friend by the death of ALGERNON GEORGE PERCY, Sixth Duke of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In 1952
FOR the third year, in the seven years since the war ended, the Life-boat Service set up a new record. In 1952 its boats went out to the rescue 657 times. That is more than ever before in time of peace, and though the figure is considerably...
Category: Articles
Five Men Rescued from a Yacht
AT 1.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station, Mr. J.
Kennedy, was told by the Formby coastguard that a yacht was at anchor one mile north of Southport...
Category: Services
Heron
St. Helier, Jersey. At 9.30 on the evening of the 16th September, 1961, the harbour office informed the honor- ary secretary that the motor vessel Heron had struck the Paternoster Reef and was sinking fast. A moderate south-south-westerly...