LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governor The following have been appointed honorary life-governors of the Institution and presented with a copy of the vote in- scribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
Category: Awards
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (3)
Launches 27. Lives Rescued 5.
APRIL 9TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 1.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that the 7,000-ton S.S. Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward...
Category: Services
David Mitchell Mp Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department of Transport Was Particularly Keen to Look Over Rnli
David Mitchell, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department of Transport, was particularly keen to look over RNLI headquarters when he paid a brief visit to Poole in October. In an hour and a half he toured head office and the depot... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose With Her Crew and the Lifeboat People of Kent and Hampshire As Well As Neighbouring Stations Who Had Gathered for Her Naming Music
Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose with her crew and the lifeboat people of Kent and Hampshire, as well as neighbouring stations, who had gathered for her naming.
Music was by the Junior Band of the Royal Marines and fanfares... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nordstern
SALCOMBE.—It having been reported on the morning of the 13th January that a steamer was ashore near the Start, the Life-boat Lesty was launched at 9 A.M., and when about half a mile off the Prawle, met the boats of the steamer Nordstern, of...
Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.9 on the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was burning flares north-north-east of Kettleness.
At 1.19 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
Tarka
DAMAGED FUEL-PIPE Exmouth, Devon. At 9.10 p.m. on 9th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen south of Straight Point. There was a gentle west-north-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was two...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
STRONSAY, ORKNEY ISLANDS.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat Station at Stronsay in order to strengthen the Life-boat service in the Orkney Islands.
The new Life-boat is of the Watson type,...
Category: Articles
Manx tales
The Isle of Man is an unusual location whose community is inextricably linked to the sea – and the RNLI
Set in the midst of the Irish Sea, encircled by all five nations of the UK and RoI, the Isle of Man (IoM) is actually...
Category: Articles
Hunstanton Atlantic 75
23 May 1999 - Sharon Parke anoints the new Hunstanton Atlantic 75 with Champagne as she names the €71,000 lifeboat, DJS Haverhill, in memory of her late uncle, David James Sisson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs