LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pan Gothia
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.5 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1958, the Lade coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been lost overboard from the tanker Pan Gothia of Kungsbacka, Sweden, seven and a half miles south-west...
Disasters of Sixty and Fifty Years Ago. The Recollections of Eye-Witnesses
SIXTY years ago last September, and fifty years ago this December, life- boats were capsized and lives were lost.
Sixty years ago it was the life-boat at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, which capsized.
Her second...
Category: Articles
Chillerton Dene
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 5.31 p.m. on 7th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht, the Chillerton Dene of Poole, had lost a rudder and was drifting off Ryde pier. At 7.5 the position had not improved and...
The Press and Life-Boat Work
We would like to express the grateful thanks of the Institution to the following firms of publishers who have generously inserted the leaflet of the Institution in their Christmas issues or have given us a free advertisement in their pages...
Category: Correspondence
Index to the Branches
ABERDEEN. . . 223 ABERDOVEI . . 202 ABBRSOCH . . . 173 ABERYSTWTTH . 171 AOKEBGttL . . 227 ALDEBUBGH . . 211 ALLOA . . . . 227 ALHMOUTH . . 205 ANGLE . . . . 208 ANGLESEY . . . 170 ANSTRUTHEB . . 229 APPLBDORI . .179 ARANMORE . . 239...
Category: Branches
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Stood by in storm ON SATURDAY December 15, 1979, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station that a vessel three miles north west of Trevose Head had transmitted a mayday distress signal...
Category: Services
The Fourteenth Collecting Box to Be Put Before the Public In the Chertsey Area: This One Is at the Leisure Centre Thorpe Park and Was Unveiled By Rnli Chairman the Duke of Atholl (I) In the Pres
The fourteenth collecting box to be put before the public in the Chertsey area: this one is at the leisure centre, Thorpe Park, and was unveiled by RNLI chairman, the Duke of Atholl (I.) in the presence of Terry Cat/iff, director of Leisure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report. 1896
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of March, 1896, Captain His Royal Highness The DUKE OF YORK, R.N., KG-., in the Chair...
Category: Annual Reports
The Lifeboat Service—Past and Present
Years Ago The following is an extract from the speech by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt (Chairman of the RNLI, 1923-56) at the 1935 Annual General Meeting and reported in THE LIFEBOAT of June 1935.
and then had to go on to New...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (1)
NOVEMBER and DECEMBER 1990 JANUARY and FEBRUARY 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: December 12 and January 13 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 10, 17 and December 30 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: November 2 Aldeburgh,...
Category: Services