LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Brightside, of Dundee
SEPTEMBER. 20TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 5.5 in the afternoon Lloyd’s agent asked, through the coastguard, if the life-boat could take out food to the S.S.
Brightside, of Dundee. A south-south-west breeze...
Fowey: the Champagne Bottle Breaks As Mr Paul Chilcott Names the 33Ft Brede Class Lifeboat Rnlb Leonore Chilcott Photograph By Courtesy of Harry and Billy Graeme
Fowey: The champagne bottle breaks as Mr Paul Chilcott names the 33ft Brede class lifeboat RNLB Leonore Chilcott. photograph by courtesy of Harry and Billy Graeme. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ilb Launches on Service During the Months June July and August 1972
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire August 15th.
June 30th, July 4th and 9th.Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down...
Category: Services
Upas
On the 18th March, during a strong N. gale with snow showers, the Motor Life-boat William and Laura was called out to the assistance of the steamer Upas, of Newry. When the vessel was five miles south of the Skullmartin Light- ship her cargo...
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Happy retirement, Elsie
Elsie Miller, Honorary Secretary at Ramsgate RNLI, is stepping down from her role after celebrating an impressive 64 years of volunteering at...
Category: Articles
Vanadis
GORLESTON.—Signal-gnus having been fired by the St. Nicholas light-vessel on the llth April, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 11 P.M., spoke the lightship and found that the guns she had fired were in response to those fired by the...
Rover
AUGUST 27TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 12.16 P.M. the coastguard reported that a small rowing boat was in difficulties off Porthdinllaen Point.
A moderately strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 2.26 a.m. on i8th August, 1966, two girls, who had set out to walk from Sandown to Bembridge along the shore, were reported missing. There was a calm sea. It was just after high water. The life-boat Jesse Lumb...
Ducking and Diving
Earlier this year, the people of Portstewart, Northern Ireland, celebrated St Patrick's day with their annual sponsored Duck Dive. Participants jumped or dived into a nearby intertidal basin, many of them wearing fancy dress. The event,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Foreword
AN ADDRESS BY SIR GODFREY BARING, BT.
CHAIRMAN OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INSTITUTION ON 10th. JULY, 1941..
Category: Articles