LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Olwen Carey Evans
Lady Olwen Carey Evans, DBE, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president and chairman of South Caernarvonshire ladies' guild, surrounded by her family on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday; the card she is holding is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wells-Next-The-Sea: 0415 Launch the 37' Oakley Reserve Lifeboat Calouste Gulbenkian on Temporary Duty at Wells Was Called Out In the Morning of July 10 After a 9
Wells-next-the-Sea: 0415 launch. The 37' Oakley reserve lifeboat, Calouste Gulbenkian, on temporary duty at Wells, was called out in the morning of July 10 after a 999 report of a missing swimmer. Together with Wells ILB and a helicopter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
President's Visit:
President's visit: The Duke of Kent with Coxswain Peter Bougourd aboard St Peter Port, Guernsey, lifeboat during a visit to the island in July. The RNLI's President met members of the lifeboat community and also the chairman and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hamilton Guild Lanarkshire
A beautiful setting and perfect weather ensured that an evening of wine, open sandwiches, fashion and music, organised by Hamilton guild, Lanarkshire, was a huge success, raising £1,400. The event was held in the garden of Mrs Kay... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal gratitude
This is the moment that the RNLI’s Patron, HM The Queen, thanked Newhaven lifeboat crew for their courage during the October storms. Her Royal Highness met Newhaven lifeboat Coxswain Paul Legendre during a visit to Newhaven after the crew...
Category: Articles
Teens adrift
12 July: Four teenagers and an adult found themselves powerless when their angling boat's engine failed. They were drifting towards rocks near Ardnamurchan Point, the most westerly part of the British...
Category: Articles
A French Motor Life-Boat
JANUARY 26TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. A French motor life-boat bound for Bridlington for service as a rescue boat under the Admiralty had been disabled by her engine breaking down. The life-boat passed quite close to her in the darkness,...
Marshall
BOULMER.—A boat, containing four men, being observed off Boulmer during a strong W.N.W. wind and a high sea on the 4th March, the Life-boat Robin Hood of Nottingham put off to her assistance at 7 A.M., and brought ashore the boat and the...
St Patrick, of Bangor
On the 26th January the smack St. Patrick, of Bangor, was observed flying signals of distress at anchor in Red Wharf Bay, the wind blowing a gale from S.S.W. The life-boat at Moelfre was immediately launched to her aid, and found that she...
Gustava
BALLYCOTTON, IRELAND. — At about 5 P.M. on the 21st October, the barque Gustava,, of Laurvig, Norway, bound from Cardiff to the Baltic via Cork, with coal, was seen standing in for Ballycotton Sound. A pilot went off to her in a whaleboat,...