LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Direct Talking
The RNLI's Director, Brian Miles, looks back at 1997 and at the Institution's plans for 1998 Although one of our principle challenges must be for the RNLI to be administered in a modern, businesslike and efficient way we should never...
Category: Articles
The House-Boat Petrina (1)
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sus- sex. At 10.12 on the night of the 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Fairlight informed the Hastings honor- ary secretary that two flares had been seen south-east of the look-out. At 10.45 the...
Tyrronall
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1955, the skipper of a fishing boat in Arklow dock reported that he had heard on his boat's wireless the motor vessel Tyrronall reporting that her steering gear had...
Crescence
LINE FIRED TO MOTOR VESSEL AGROUND Caister, Norfolk. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore at Winterton but did not require any...
Holders of Lloyd's Medals
WE gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of redeeming the pledge, given in the June number of this Journal, that the services of Naval Officers, now living, the holders of Lloyd's Honorary Medals, should have a page to themselves. It...
Category: Articles
The Homecoming - Toshiba Wave Warrior
The homecoming - Toshiba Wave Warrior crosses the finish line in Southampton at 0339 on 16 July 1997.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NORTH DEAL.—A new life-boat station has been established by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at the north end of the town of Deal on the Kentish coast, as it was thought that a life-boat placed there might be useful on occasions of wrecks...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
Dover PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the president of the R.N.L.I., named the new Dover life-boat, Faithful Forester, at Dover on 26th July, 1967. The 44-foot steel boat was a gift from the Ancient Order of Foresters - the eighth to be...
Category: Inaugurations
Overheard on a Bus
THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.
A member of the Institution's staff was recently...
Category: Articles
Sir William Sutherland
Sir William Sutherland, Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders police holds the winning ticket in the Scottish region Volvo Draw. Pictured from left to right in front of the car are: Gillian Paton, representing Loganair who presented a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs