LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At the Sharp End
A selection of lifeboat services from around the country Wells East Division Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat...
Category: Services
Services of the Life- Boats of the Institution During 1937
Persons Time of rescued from 1937.
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Category: Services
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
CROYDON (SURREY).—Life-boat Collecting Boxes placed in the booking offices of the Air Lines and also at the Aerodrome Hotel.
BALING. — Drawing-room Meeting, given by Mrs. Brydges, wife of...
Category: Branches
Poole: After Hrh Crown Prince Harald of Norway
Poole: After HRH Crown Prince Harald of Norway, Honorary Colonel of the Royal Marines, had visited Commando units at Hamworthy on November 4 he embarked in one of the Institution's latest 52ft Arun class lifeboats and was brought round... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 19th November, 1935.
Sir GODFREY BARING, St., in the chair.
Resolved that Mr. F. J. Terry, M.A., be appointed joint district organizing secretary for Greater London.
Reported ...
Category: Committee
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Aberdovey, Merioneth. At 6.50 p.m.
on 7th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people were stranded on an isolated rock below the cliffs at Berth. At 6.55 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
The Saturday Club
The Saturday Club for deaf and partially hearing children aged 8 to 16, Newport, Isle of Wight, includes many outdoor activities in its programme, and four weeks of special efforts for the RNLI culminated in an exhibition football match... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tonnage Admeasurement. Report of the Royal Commission on Tonnage
FOR very many years the question as to the fairest mode of calculating the tonnage or carrying power of ships has been a vexed and important one. It would, of itself, be one of much less importance were it not that dock-dues, harbour-dues,...
Category: Articles
A Cheer for the Life-Boat
" SIR you observe that ?" we asked, one autumnal evening in the year of grace and so forth, when, with a score of others, we were peering into the darkness from the weather-side of Ratnsgate Pier.
'•What, sir...
Category: Articles
Celia's supporting role
A stellar acting career and a passion for the sea unite in Celia Imrie’s latest role – and thoughts of lifeboats are never far away
As someone who regularly takes the ferry journey from...
Category: Articles