LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
Dover PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the president of the R.N.L.I., named the new Dover life-boat, Faithful Forester, at Dover on 26th July, 1967. The 44-foot steel boat was a gift from the Ancient Order of Foresters - the eighth to be...
Category: Inaugurations
United States Life-Saving Service
FROM the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued, we observe that on the 30th of June, 1885, there were 203 stations, 157 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio,...
Category: Articles
Naomh Fergus
Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 12.55 p.m. on 24th August, 1968, the honorary secretary received a report that the fishing boat Naomh Fergus with a crew of three had fired flares three and a half miles west by south of Ballycotton lighthouse. The...
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN ISO NOTES OF THE QUARTER 151 TENTH INTERNATIONAL LIFE-BOAT CONFERENCE 155 NAMING CEREMONIES - CROMER, GORLESTON AND NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA . . 157 PRESIDENT'S 25™ ANNIVERSARY .. .. ...
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Awards to Honorary Workers
THE following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries and other hon.
workers in acknowledgement of their valuable co-operation extending over periods of 10 years and upwards.
To the Rev. COURTNAY...
Category: Awards
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes
AUG. 8TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX.
A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers’ Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea,...
Three cheers for Tamars!
Three new Tamar class lifeboats went on service at RNLI stations this Autumn – at Kilmore Quay, Shoreham Harbour and Bembridge.
Kilmore Quay’s new lifeboat, Killarney, was the first Tamar to go on station in Ireland....
Category: Articles
Oldham the Second of Hoylake's Four Liverpool Lifeboats Which Spanned the Years 1906 to 1974; the First Was a Pulling and Sailing Boat the Last Three Motor Oldham
Oldham, the second of Hoylake's four Liverpool lifeboats which spanned the years 1906 to 1974; the first was a pulling and sailing boat, the last three motor. Oldham, presented by the town of Oldham, was on station from 1931 to 1952; she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jersey: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Names Thomas James King (Below) and (Above) Meets the 89-Year-Old Gold Medallist After Whom the New St.He Her Boat Tak
Jersey: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother names Thomas James King (below) and (above) meets the 89-year-old gold medallist after whom the new St He Her boat takes her name.
Photographs by courtesy of (above) Jersey Evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. Princess Margaret Met Mr. J. Tofton, Who Is Now the Chief Rigger at the Depot, at the RNLI Stand at the International Boat Show
H.R.H. Princess Margaret met Mr. J. Tofton, who is now the chief rigger at the Depot, at the RNLI stand at the International Boat Show. The Princess was escorted by the Secretary of the Institution, Mr. Stirling Whorlow.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs