LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Casita
Torbay, Devon - At 8.45 p.m. on June, 1967, the coastguard and the honorary secretary conferred with regard to an unidentified 'Mayday' call which had been received. It was decided not tolaunch the life-boat until further information...
Drake
Whilst the new Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was being navigated from Liverpool to her station on the 27th June by a party of New Brighton Life-boatmen, the attention of the Coxswain was drawn by a passing dredger to a small yacht, which...
Obituaries
Reigate and Redhill branch has suffered the loss of its president and both vice-presidents in less than a year: Cdr J. D. Walters, RN, was chairman during the 1939 to 1945 war and was subsequently president. George A. Hodgkins, a...
Category: Obituaries
"Man the Life-Boat!" An Acrostic. By a Yorkshire Clergyman
The Royal National Life-boat Institution Rescues Numberless Lives; Incites Really Noble, Laudable Inquiries; Reckons Necessary Lofty Ideas; Rewards News; Laments Indolence; Relieves Nautical Labourers Immediately;...
Category: Poetry
Mr E W Sheppard of Nottingham Pictured With His 52-Foot Barnett Life-Boat Model Which Is 4-Foot 6-Inches Long and Took Him 18 Months to Complete on Exhibition It Has
Mr. E. W. Sheppard, of Nottingham, pictured with his 52-foot Barnett life-boat model which is 4-foot 6-inches long and took him 18 months to complete. On exhibition it has earned money for the R.N.L.I. and created great interest.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When the Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club Staged An R.N.L.I, Weekend In May, 1970,
When the Felixstowe Ferry sailing club staged an R.N.L.I, weekend in May, 1970, during which they raised £700 for the life-boat service, Sir Alec Rose, who as a lone yachtsman sailed round the world, presented cups. Here he is shown... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Stranton
— The Life-boat Mary Batger was launched shortly after 1 A.M. on the 14th May in response to distress signals, a vessel having stranded, in foggy weather, during the night on the rocks at Huntcliffe. The Life-boat, on arrival, found the s.s....
Golden Age, of Liverpool
On the night of the 18th February the ship Golden Age, of Liverpool, 1,062 tons burthen, stranded on the " Roar Bank," off Littlestone, the wind blowing a fresh gale from the east.
At daylight on the 19th she was...
Dutch Thanks
The Netherlands Ministers for Shipping and Foreign Affairs have sent the thanks of their government to the Life-boat Institution and "the gallant crews of its life-boats for the services during the war by which the lives of a great...
Category: Articles
The After Effects of the Boxing Day Storm on a Car Parked on Ramsgate's East Pierhead
The after effects of the Boxing Day storm on a car parked on Ramsgate's east pierhead.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs