LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
One of a Series of Six Paintings
One of a series of six paintings prepared in the RNLI display studio at Poole by Hilary Dear and David Simmons for the Indian Chief centenary exhibition at Ramsgate Harbour's Clock House. This painting, by David Simmons, taken from an...
Category: Drawings
Naval Launch No. 173
Sennen Cove.
On Saturday, the 29th November, 1919, three naval motor launches left •Queenstown, escorted by a destroyer, oa their way to Southampton to be paid off. During the night the wind got up from S.S.W., and by...
Le Vieux Tigre
During a dense fog on the evening of the 27th March the steam trawler Le Vieux Tigre, of Boulogne, ran on to the rocks at Beast Point. A moderate E.S.E.
wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. Lloyd's signal station re...
Launching and Recovery—Part I: Slipway Stations By Edward Wake- Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
IN THE ACCOUNT of the service by Padstow lifeboat to the coaster Skopelos Sky which appeared in the summer edition of the journal, there was an unusual addendum. Unlike most reports that begin with words to the effect that 'the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a new Life-boat es- tablishment at Johnshaven, near Montrose, for the service of fishing-boats which are frequently placed in imminent peril when...
Category: Articles
Books
Lost Photdgraphiof the RNLI By Edward Wake-Walker Published by Sutton Publishing ISBN 0750937181 Price: £25 • , .
Legendary lifeboat rescues are brought vividly to life in this w book by former* RNU PR Director Edward...
Category: Articles
Television Appeal
ON Sunday, the 19th of February, 1961, the first television appeal on behalf of the life-boat service was broadcast by the B.B.C. The appeal to viewers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland was made by Mr. Wynford Vaughan Thomas. That to...
Category: Advertisement
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President—THE BIGHT Hon. EARL PERCY, P.G.
THE COMMITTEE or MANAGEMENT have to state that, during...
Category: Advertisement
Annual General Meeting
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Hall, Westminster on Monday, of the Governors of the Institution 6th of March, 1961, beginning at will be held at the Central I 3 p.m.
Notice All contributions for the Institution should be sent...
Category: Meetings
Apollo
HASTINGS.—On the 18th February, the schooner Apollo, of Bandholm, bound from London to Cette with a cargo of currants, drove on to the rocks near Rock-a-Nore in a N.W. wind and heavy swell. The1 Lifeboat proceeded to her, and as it was found...