LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Filter by

You can search by year, volume, issue and/or content type.
Year:
Add a to date (optional)
Volume:
Add a to volume (optional)
Issue:
Add a to issue (optional)
Type of content:
You can search by vessel, date and/or lifeboat station.
Service date:
Add a to date (optional)
Clear all filters
43769 search results for 'The S.S. Chant 63'
List view Card view

Alarm Given By a Train

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...

Category: Services

KEY Retirement Solutions

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

I enjoy a more prosperous retirement EX-SERVICE MAN MAKES THE MOST OF HIS RETIREMENT YEARS WITH AN EQUITY RELEASE SCHEME Flying for the first time into the airfield he had helped to build whilst serving in Burma during the Second World War,...

Category: Advertisement

Commander St. Vincent Nepean

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

WE greatly regret to have to record the death of Commander St. Vincent Nepean, R.N., M.V.O., which took place on the 28th March. Commander Nepean joined the Institution as a District Inspector of Life-boats in 1883 and became, successively,...

Category: Obituaries

News

Date: Summer 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 581

neWs the latest launches, live! the rescue stories you read in the Lifeboat are but a handful of the thousands of RnLi lifeboat launches undertaken every year. now, the RnLi desktop pager allows computer users to keep up to date with every...

Category: Articles

Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats. Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen

Date: November 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 292

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and Aberdeen.

THE new Porthdinllaen Motor Lifeboat was named on 12th August by Dame Margaret Lloyd George.

D.B.E., J.P., President of the South' Caernarvonshire Branch...

Category: Inaugurations

Dutch Thanks

Date: June 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 24

The Netherlands Ministers for Shipping and Foreign Affairs have sent the thanks of their government to the Life-boat Institution and "the gallant crews of its life-boats for the services during the war by which the lives of a great...

Category: Articles

Service Awards

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

Awards to coxswains, crew members and shore helpers The following people were awarded certificates of service on their retirement in 2000.

* denotes coxswain Names in italic have served at least 30 years Names in blue have...

Category: Awards

Tea-Up!'

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

Tea-up!' Andy Gibson uses an appropriate device to announce a tea break - no one can say they didn't hear this foghorn!. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Hunzeborg

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Walmer, Kent - At 10.4 a.m. on i3th August, 1966, the honorary secretary heard an S.O.S. call from the Dutch coaster Hunzeborg reporting that she had been in collision with the Greek freighter Diamandis, south of the East Goodwin lightship....

Some of the Happiest Calls on Our Lifeboats Lire 'Christmas Runs' to Lightvessels and Isolated Lighthouses

Date: Winter 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 467

Some of the happiest culls on our lifeboats lire 'Christmas runs' to lightvessels and isolated lighthouses.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs