LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Airliner (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
(Above) the West German 23M Lifeboat Eiswette
(Above) The West German 23m lifeboat Eiswette arriving at the RNLI Poole depot quay, Wednesday May 30. - View image in PDF
She carries a daughter lifeboat on her after deck which is launched from her stern.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Profitable Partnership (For the Lifeboats) Was Entered Into When
A profitable partnership (for the lifeboats) was entered into when Esher branch joined forces with a local smallholder to sell fruit and vegetables as well as RNLI souvenirs at Esher Fair. The entire profit of over £100 went to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
End of a Life-Boat Band
THE Blackpool life-boat band, which was founded in 1884, and was then the only life-boat band in the world, has now been disbanded. The idea of forming a band was conceived at a time when Blackpool had not yet become a popular holiday resort...
Category: Articles
Left–Right: The lifeboat Alexandra now welcomes guests as a B&B; Work inderway on the Manchester and Salford restoration; the Manchester and Salford’s naming ceremony in 1924
Left–Right: The lifeboat Alexandra now welcomes guests as a B&B; Work inderway on the Manchester and Salford restoration; the Manchester and Salford’s naming ceremony in 1924 - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bembridge Coxswain, Peter Smith, Was Knocked Unconscious When He Was Thrown Against a Stanchion While the Life-Boat, Jesse Lumb Was Battling Against Heavy Seas on a Service Call to a Yacht in Distress
Bembridge Coxswain, Peter Smith, Was Knocked Unconscious When He Was Thrown Against a Stanchion While the Life-Boat, Jesse Lumb Was Battling Against Heavy Seas on a Service Call to a Yacht in Distress. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six Medals for Gallantry
Six Medals for Gallantry WEST KIRBY, CHESHIRE On the 6th February, 1943, two men in a small boat were rescued.
MR. BENJAMIN S. ARMITAGE was awarded the bronze medal.
MR. HERBERT JONES, coxswain of the...
Category: Medals
People and Places
New Year honours Her Majesty the Queen has honoured three people for their services to the RNLI in this year's New Year Honours: Mrs Marion Judge, lately member and officer of Wakefield ladies' lifeboat guild, has been made a Member,...
Category: Articles
Gladeye
Weymouth, Dorset. At 5.24 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard saw a yacht firing red flares three and a half miles south of Lulworth Cove. There was a westerly wind of gale force, and a rough sea. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke...
Bronze Medal for Newbiggin, Northumberland
AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.
A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...
Category: Medals