LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Line Up for the International Life-Boat Conference: Life-Boats of the R.N.L.I. Assembling at East Cowes In May, 1967, Before Setting Out for the 10th International Conference in Dinard and St. Malo from 5th-9th June
Line up for the International Life-boat Conference: life-boats of the R.N.L.I, assembling at East Cowes in May, 1967, before setting out for the 10th international conference in Dinard and St. Malo from 5th-9th June. Shown (from left to... - View image in PDF
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The Right Honourable Edward R G Heath Pc Mbe Mp Was Guest Speaker at the Afternoon Meeting and Also Presented the Awards With Him Seated Are the Duke Atholl Chairman of the Inst
The Right Honourable Edward R. G. Heath, PC MBE MP, was guest speaker at the afternoon meeting and also presented the awards. With him, seated, are the Duke of Atholl, Chairman of the Institution, and Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, Director.<... - View image in PDF
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T H 'Harry' Jones Joined Hoylake Lifeboat Crew In 1937 and Was Second Coxswain from 1963 Until 1974 When He Was Appointed Coxswain; He Was Awarded the Bronze Medal In 1979
T. H. 'Harry' Jones joined Hoylake lifeboat crew in 1937 and was second coxswain from 1963 until 1974 when he was appointed coxswain; he was awarded the bronze medal in 1979.. - View image in PDF
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A Royal Air Force Rescue Launch
Anstruther, Fifeshlre. — About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Royal Air Force rescue launch had picked up a badly injured airman from an R.A.F. heli- copter, which during...
Testing her mettle
The new RNLI memorial sculpture at Poole encapsulates the charity’s heritage and purpose – but who is behind its design?
It’s 7am and there’s a salty breeze blowing across the flats of Sittingbourne at the edge of...
Category: Articles
Perilous Play
RescUe PeRILoUs PLAY swept along by the powerfully ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s survival depended on the reaction of her local lifeboat crew a powerful ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s Jade Kerrison was playing with a friend at south...
Category: Articles
Breach of the peace
When two teens were swept into a rough sea on 28 December 2009, one was washed straight back to safety. The other wasn’t so lucky, but help was on its way
A south easterly force 6 was blowing on the south Devon coast. Seas...
Category: Articles
Obituary
Sir Charles H. Wilson, LL.D, F.S.A.A., of Leeds.
BY the death, on 30th December, 1930, at the age of seventy-four, of Sir Charles Wilson, LL.D., F.S.A.A., Chairman of its Leeds Branch, the Institution has lost one of the...
Category: Obituaries
Hartlepool By Joan Davies
Home port of the 44' Waveney Offshore Lifeboat The Scout and Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Guide Friendship III by Joan Davies BY THE EXPRESS WISH of Her Majesty The Queen, the theme for this, her Silver Jubilee year, is youth and the...
Category: Articles
The Queen's Forts
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1948, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned that a man, a diver of the Admiralty, working on the dis- mantling of the Queen's Forts, one and a...