LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ark of Connemara
CREW TAKEN OFF MOTOR BOAT IN GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 7.40 on the evening of the 26th August, 1962, the garda informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen at first in the direction of Rockabill and later from a boat at Lough...
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, the Newly Appointed Chairman of the Institution, Visited Blyth Life-Boat Station In September, 1967, With Lady Woods.
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, the newly appointed Chairman of the Institution, visited Blyth life-boat station in September, 1967, with Lady Woods. Here he is shown talking to Coxswain S. Crawford aboard the life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Trimaran
Capsized trimaran FOUR MINUTES after HM Coastguard had alerted Berwick-upon-Tweed crew and honorary secretary, at 1631 on May 31, 1975, to tell them that a trimaran had capsized 2\ cables outside the harbour entrance, the D class ILB was...
Naming the Port Askaig Motor Life-Boat
Miss Elizabeth Sinclair, the donor, at the microphone, with the Duke of Montrose, and the district inspector. - View image in PDF
(See page 523.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituary. Sir John Cameron Lamb
IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death, on the 30th March, of Sir John Cameron Lamb, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., the late Deputy-Chairman of the Institution. At the annual meeting in 1914 the Chairman, Lord Selborne, referred to...
Category: Obituaries
Good Intent
On the 5th October, about 10 P.M., signals of distress were seen from a fishing-smack being driven before a strong gale from the S. W. The assembly signal was made, and many willing hands quickly got the Life-boat Leslie to the water's...
News and Views
The 175th year looking back After a remarkable year the 175th anniversary programme formally ends at the 2000 London Boat Show.
There was more total media coverage of the RNLI's birthday in one day on 4 March than in...
Category: Articles
Life-Boatmen In the Victory March
Twenty-four life-boatmen, from Walton-on-tlae-Naze, Clacton, Margate, Ramsgate, Walmer and Hastings, marched with the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy in the Victory March on June 8th. The life-boats of these six stations rescued 839 lives...
Category: Articles
Miss Ann, of Paignton
JULY 18TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.7 at night the Brixham coastguard reported that the Torquay police had received a 999 telephone call which said that a whistle had been heard from a boat apparently in distress half a mile east of Roundham...
The Relief Tyne Class Lifeboat Mariner's Friend
The Relief Tyne class lifeboat Mariner's Friend about to be hauled along a newly-dug channel by a tug. - View image in PDF
Storms tore the lifeboat from her mooring, but she sufferred no damage. (Photo Evening Gazette). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs