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Centenary of the Danish Life-Boat Service

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

THE Danish Life-boat Service com- pleted its first hundred years on March 26th, 1952. In these hundred years it has rescued 12,414 lives at the cost of 59 lives of its life-boatmen.

The Institution sent it the following...

Category: Articles

The End of H.M.S. Warspite. A Dangerous Service By Penlee

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...

Category: Services

The History of the Institution

Date: June 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 279

THE history of the Institution during its first century of work has now been completed, and will be published in the early autumn of this year by Messrs.

Hodder & Stoughton, with the title " Britain's Life...

Category: Articles

Isobel and Rita

Date: May 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 248

At 11.25 A.M.

on the 26th November, during a whole S.S.W. gale, a message was received reporting that the fishing-coble Isabel and Rita, of Filey, was in distress about two miles from Filey Brigg. The Life* boat Holton...

An Aeroplane

Date: June 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 310

On 14th January a man from Dinmor Quarry saw an aeroplane apparently nose-dive either on to Puffin Island or into the sea, and reported it to the Coastguard, who notified the Life-boat Station.

This was at 3.30 P.M. The...

Life-Boat Carol-Singing

Date: March 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 313

LAST Christmas eleven Branches ar- ranged carol-singing parties, several new Branches trying this form of appeal.

Sussex was again the most successful county, with carol-singers at East Grinstead, Bognor Regis and Cuck-...

Category: Donations

Quite a Show

Date: Autumn 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 530

Quite a Show The Isle of Man Lions Club recently presented Peel Lifeboat station with a showcase for use outside the boathouse.

For operational reasons the RNLI gift shop is situated in a difficult position at the back of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

SSE support

Date: Winter 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 598 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2011

We are now entering the third and final year of the RNLI’s partnership with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).

SSE is committed to supporting the communities in which it operates. When work began on the Greater Gabbard...

Category: Articles

The Roumanian Life-Boat Service

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

ON 14th June, 1933, a life-boat society was established in Roumania. The King was its founder and is its president, and the governor of the National Bank of Roumania is ex officio the vice- president. The full title of the society is...

Category: Articles

Sarah and Mary

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

At 6.45 on the 4th December it was reported that a small schooner, the Sarah and Mary, had struck the Bar and gone j ashore in Seaford Bay. The Life-boat i Michael Henry was launched and pro- ceeded to the vessel. At the request of the...