LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lives Lost
Thirteen life-boatmen lost their lives at sea or died on their return. Three of the thirteen were killed by the enemy. One of the three was killed in the lifeboat of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, when she was attacked by a German aeroplane; The...
Category: Articles
In September Mr. Edward Heath, Leader of the Conservative Party, Went Out In a R.N.L.I. Inshore Rescue Boat from the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, Glamorganshire
In September Mr. Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative Party, went out in a R.N.L.I, inshore rescue boat from the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, Glamorganshire. The man in the cap is Mr. Peter Gurnell, Outward Bound Sea School... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.20 in the evening, on the 5th of May, 1950, the Cementation Company said that aboat was in danger of drifting out to sea with a large section of the boom off Shoeburyness. It had three of their men aboard, who...
Malabar 13
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.25 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a member of the local life-boat committee telephoned that a yacht taking part in the Fastnet Race had been dismasted west of the North East Shingles Buoy. She was...
The S.S. Radstock
STEAMER TOWED IN St. Mary'*, Scilly Islands.—At about 10.40 on the night of the 4th of October, 1947, the Round Island Lighthouse wirelessed that a vessel was firing dis- tress signals about two miles north of the island, and the motor...
Pollie
LYNMOUTH.—The Life-boat Louisa was launched at 3 P.M. on the 19th February, a vessel having been reported to be in distress. A whole gale was blowing from the E.N.E., the sea was rough, the weather was thick and snow was falling. On reaching...
The Sailing Boat Berlin
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 5 o'clock in the evening on the 7th of January, 1950, information was re- ceived that the sixteen-feet sailing boat Berlin, with a German and his daughter on board, had left Kilmore Quay for...
Afternoon
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Presentation of awards . . . 1964 at the Central Hall, Westminster: presentations were made by HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, then president of the Institution.
Alan Neal and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies In 1964
PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the Institution's President, will name the new Llandudno life-boat on 15th May and the new St. David's life-boat on igth May. At the time of going to press dates for other cere- monies have not been...
Category: Inaugurations
Eastbourne Life-Boat Museum
MKS. ASTLEY ROBERTS, the president and chairman of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild, has presented the Institution with a four-sided illu- minated electric clock, to stand on the roof of the old life-boathouse, which is now the...
Category: Articles