LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Shetland Islands
WHETHER the Shetland Islands were the Ultima Thule of the Romans or whether that term was really applied to Iceland, as many believe, is immaterial to most people living in the " adjacent islands" of Great Britain and Ireland; it...
Category: Articles
Saved By a Motor Lifeboat
While sifting through film archives at RNLI headquarters in Poole, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, Jon Jones discovered an unknown and very rusty film canister...
The mysterious canister was handed to Sue Denny,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken...
Category: Services
A Smashing Time! Watched By Crew Members of the Aberdeen Lifeboat
A smashing time! Watched by crew members of the Aberdeen lifeboat, Alister Yorston, district manager of United Rum Merchants and Norman Trewren, coxswain, broke open pub collection bottles for the RNLI. Aberdeen-based Watsons Rum has built... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
Coronation Supplement. The Royal Family and the Life-Boat Service
WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
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
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
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