LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inshore Lifeboats
AT HASTINGS on May 17 (above) a D class ILB, the cost of which had been given by J. H. Minet and Co., was presented to the station by E. G.
Denman (left), Managing Director of the Marine Division of Minets, and accepted by...
Category: Inaugurations
Flower Fantasy
The Cutty Sark Society has kindly agreed that the lower deck of the famous clipper Cutty Sark at Greenwich can be used as a setting for a Life-boat Fantasy in Flowers to raise funds for the R.N.L.I. The fantasy will consist of 20 flower...
Category: Donations
Cleghorn Waring
o you know Cleghorn Waring keep over 1000 different items for JABSCO pumps in stock ?' BRONZE PUMP 4900-200 £12.23 -;- VAT *No.
Your foots on the rope" When you need a Jabsco pump—think of us. We keep a vast...
Category: Advertisement
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NOV. 25TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
Two heavy explosions at sea had been reported. The life-boat went first to the East Newcombe Buoy but found nothing.
She then went north to Corton Light-vessel which told...
The S.S. Brookside
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 31st of March, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that he had intercepted a wireless message from the S.S.
Brookside, of Sunderland, which said...
Mineral Century
Conditions at the limit of D class capabilities Matthew Rossi of Port Talbot lifeboat has received a framed letter of thanks from RNLI Chairman David Acland for his seamanship and leadership skills following the rescue of a man from the sea...
At a Ceremony at Silloth on Sunday June 7
At a ceremony at Silloth on Sunday June 7, County Councillor J. Ormond Holliday, vice-president of Silloth branch, opened the station's new tractor house and then Silloth's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, principally... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sir Alec Rose Who Opened Southampton Boat Show In September Arrived With Lady Rose for the Opening Ceremony In Calshot Lifeboat the 40Ft Keith Nelson Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen
Sir Alec Rose, who opened Southampton Boat Show in September, arrived with Lady Rose for the opening ceremony in Calshot lifeboat, the 40ft Keith Nelson Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde. The lifeboat was accompanied by the frigate... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Queen of the Fleet
On the afternoon of the 13th January a ketch was seen to anchor off Southsea -Castle and close to broken water, and as she was near to the shore and possibly bumping it, the coxswain of the Life-boat Heyland was informed, the crew were...
Open All Hours
Open all Hours Nearly all of the Institution's 215 lifeboat stations held a special open day during the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, most of them opening on the Sunday, 28 May.
An estimated 65,000 people visited... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs