LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated &y Royal Charter.') FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

PATRONESS.

IN the last issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, it was reported that Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, had now completed 25 years as President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Princess succeeded the late Duke of Kent, who had been the...

The difficulties of launching and recovering a lifeboat from an open beach are well illustrated by the photograph, taken while the lifeboat was on this service. - View image in PDF

On the 26th November, 1939, the Blackpool life-boat rescued the six survivors of the crew of the Mersey pilot boat Charles Livingstone.

COXSWAIN WILLIAM R. PARR was awarded the silver medal.

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The Institution has made rewards of £15 : 15 :- to three fishermen of Boston, Lincolnshire, for rescuing three airmen whose aeroplane had crashed en a.

sandbank. They had come down through a cloud over The Wash and had...

A happy interlude when Princess Alexandra visited Stockport in March: arriving at the Town Hall for lunch, the Princess met the local branch crew of lifeboat auxiliaries, some wearing their red stocking hats. She told them that when visiting... - View image in PDF

THURSDAY, 4th Oct. 1883.

EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.Pi, V.P., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-...