LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Holyhead: the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Names the 52Ft Arun Hyman Winstone Photograph By Courtesy of Jeff Morris
Holyhead: The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, names the 52ft Arun Hyman Winstone. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their tenth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 1st August, when the Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch. By collecting this year over...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
WHEN, ON MARCH 27, HRH The Duke of Kent attended the first meeting of the Committee of Management to be held in the RNLI's new London premises, it was the first time that a President of the Institution had addressed such a...
Category: Articles
The Barquintine Erik Gjessen
The bar- quentine Erik Ojessen, of Skudescae, whilst bound from Haugesund to Leith in ballast, stranded about two and a half miles south of Newburgh on the 29th October. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing at the time, but the sea j was very...
Five Lives Rescued In the Floods. Unusual Service By the Whitby Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual...
Category: Services
Radar Was First Installed In a Lifeboat 1963 the Boat Being Stationed at Yarmouth In the Isle of Wight. the Cost of the Set Was Largely Paid for By a Fund Started By Admir
'Radar was first installed in a lifeboat in 1963, the boat being stationed at Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. The cost of the set was largely paid for by a fund started by admirers of Joseph Conrad as a memorial to the great writer'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Other Side
Reciprocal visits across the Channel were renewed in May when a party of 10 committee members of the Dover station branch of the R.N.L.I, and five crew members of the Dover life-boat went by invitation of the Societe Humanite et des...
Category: Committee
Furthest North: Aith and Lerwick Lifeboat Stations Shetland By Joan Davies
THULE? The most remote land sighted by the Romans? Was it Shetland? Perhaps. Certainly Shetland is the most northerly of the British Isles and Aith and Lerwick, both lying above latitude 60 degrees north, are the most northerly of the...
Category: Articles
The Codling Bank lightvessel
Wicklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 10th of November, Irish Lights, Wexford, asking if the 1956, a request was received from the life-boat would bring ashore a man from the Codling Bank lightvessel whose mother was...
Row By Row
Walton and Frinton ladies' guild rowing crew have been presented with their own boat by Nobby Pearce, vice-chairman of the Walton and Frinton branch.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs