LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eight In a Row
Eight in a row Last year 33 members of Wallingford Rowing Club sculled their way down the Thames from Oxford to Wallingf ord to raise money, both for new equipment and for the RNLI. Later, as the picture shows, an 'eight' from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Hundred Years Ago
IT was mentioned in last year's Report that four life-boats, on the most recent construction, were building, and were about to be stationed on the coast of Northumberland; these boats, by the courtesy of the Lords Commissioners of the...
Category: Articles
Favourite, of Hastings
JULY 4TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. In the early hours of the morning several fishing boats were overtaken by a violent thunderstorm, and at 2.52 they were reported to be making for Rye harbour, but at 3.15 the coastguard reported that one was...
Millais
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.4 P.M.
on the 15th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small vessel was in distress five miles W.N.W. of Bar Buoy, and that the steamer Millais was standing by. This was confirmed by...
Rnli News
Royal meeting Guest of honour at this year's annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall will be Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The ceremony takes place at 3.00 on the afternoon of Tuesday May 12, 1987, when the...
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Try, I'll Try and Baden Powell
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—At 8.16 on the morning of 12th of June, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard rang up the Great Yar- mouth and Gorleston life-boat station to say that a shrimp boat had broken down off the harbour...
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19th October.
A vessel had been reported ashore, but could not be found. One of the life- boatmen was washed overboard, but rescued.—Rewards, Thanks of the In- stitution inscribed on vellum, letters of thanks, and £l...
(Above) Mrs Pat Whittaker District Organising Secretary (Ne) Presents to Her Majesty Mrs Audrey Woore Chairman Hartlepool Headland Ladies Guild and (Below) Ge
(Above) Mrs Pat Whittaker, district organising secretary (NE), presents to Her Majesty Mrs Audrey Woore, chairman, Hartlepool Headland ladies guild and (below) General Farrant presents Sir William Gladstone, The Chief Scout, and a Scout... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above and beyond
The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp
Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....
Category: Articles
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Valentia - Ireland Division Valentia is the RNLI's westernmost lifeboat station, situated on the rugged coast of Co. Kerry, in south west Ireland. The Severn class...
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