LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Taste of France
Can-can girls were popular entertainers at a French Connection evening, staged by the Middelsex forum at the end of November - raising nearly £3,000 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: Mrs Maud Russ of Portishead Branch Receives the Congratulations of Her Fellow Supporters Her 100Th Birthday
Below: Mrs Maud Russ of Portishead branch receives the congratulations of her fellow supporters on her 100th birthday.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
British Triumph
FEBRUARY 13TH . - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 12.40 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship’s boat was drifting five to six miles off Cromer. A northeast wind was blowing, with a moderate...
A Year of Peace
In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on May 8th.
1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives. That is an average of 5 lives a month and is only 50 lives less than were rescued during the last twelve months of the...
Category: Articles
The Old Polkerris (Cornwall) Life-Boat Now "Grey Fox," of Lyme Regis
The Old Polkerris (Cornwall) Life-Boat Now "Grey Fox" of Lyme Regis. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Robert and Sarah, of Blyth
On the 21st November, the brig Robert and Sarah, of Blyth, struck on the rocks at Cullercoats during a strong southerly wind and heavy sea. The Palmerston life-boat was quickly launched and saved the vessel's crew of 8 men..
Jayne Edmunds, Aged 11, Was Presented With the First Churchill Award for Bravery at Sea During the London Boat Show.
Jayne Edmunds, aged 11, was presented with the first Churchill award for bravery at Sea during the London Boat Show. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Daily Express.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Susanna, of Portsmouth
JULY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.55 at night the coastguard reported flares near the South Shingles Buoy, and at 11.20 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched in a north-westerly breeze, with a moderate sea. She searched for some time,...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Lead Us and Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 3rd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessels Lead Us and Provider A had put out to the fishing grounds. By the time they were due to return to harbour the weather had deteriorated considerably,...
Annual General Meeting. Princess Marina Presented Medals
THOSE who attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, were told that 364 people had been rescued by the Institution's life-boats and inshore rescue boats during the previous year, without...
Category: Meetings