LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"The Brotherhood of Man:" A Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
DUBIXG the war our life-boat men were condemned by some people because they rescued those, who (in the opinion of certain folk) should have been left to perish. Some of these angry people wrote letters to the papers to ask why the men who...
Category: Articles
Philip Weeks
Limited Edition Prints Passing Longstone The Liverpool class lifeboat Grace Darling stationed at Seahouses passing Longstone lighthouse in the 1960s.
Passing Beachy Head The Beach class Watson Beryl Tollemache of Eastbourne...
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Not Such a Catastrophe!
Not such a catastrophe! A black-tipped British shorthaired kitten named 'Oakley' shows great interest in the contents of the collecting box his owner Mike Evans, honorary secretary of Loughton and District branch, uses for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rupert Lifeboat Collector Par Excellence: Captain and Mrs F Wilson's African Grey Parrot Does His Trick of Duty at Their Front Gate Being a Talkative Bird He Is Very Persu
Rupert, lifeboat collector par excellence: Captain and Mrs F. Wilson's African grey parrot does his trick of duty at their front gate. Being a talkative bird, he is very persuasive and in just three weeks last August, collected more than... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnlb William and Laura
RNLB William and Laura, late of Newcastle, Northern Ireland, was taken out of retirement in Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, to help Bangor branch in a fundraising effort last April. Over the ten days she was at Clandeboye Shopping Centre... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE of WALES, K.G.
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES
H.R.H. THE DUKE of EDINBURGH,...
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The Storms of October and November Last—Life-Boat Services
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Category: Services
Two Sussex IRB Rescues
Two inshore rescue boats stationed on the Sussex coast at Hastings and Brighton carried out difficult rescues on the afternoon of Sunday, 25th June, for which framed letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the...
Category: Services
Gallantry of a Son of a Life-Boat Worker
On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...
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A Dinghy (13)
Hastings, Sussex - At 4.32 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the police informed the honorary secretary that three bathers were in difficulties off Fairlight Cove. The IRB was launched at 4.35 and proceeded to the position indicated where she found...