LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Late Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N.
WE record, with great regret, the death on 20th September, at the age of eighty-one, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., late chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Holmes was a Norfolk man, hailing from Morning- thorpe Manor House, Long...
Category: Obituaries
The Fundraisers
Flags out for the lifeboats From Pinner to Plumstead, Romford to Richmond, Potters Bar to Petts Wood, members of almost 100 London branches were knocking on doors between 9 and 16 March during the RNLI's London lifeboat...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat's Crew
Adapted by THOMAS GBAY (1868), from the " Heart of Oak," by DAVID GAEEICK (1759). if-uar- — — . -j. 7 - -m-'-m- res ! see ! they are off, though dear friends bid them stay, 5rave boat, 'neath their still braver hearts...
Category: Songs
The Naming of the 52Ft Relief Lifeboat Dwctoso/Ken/
THE PERFECT SUNNY AFTERNOON of Tu6Sday April 27 seemed to take on extra brightness when Their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at the Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, to name the relief 52ft Arun lifeboat Duchess of Kent....
Category: Articles
The Swan, of Skibbereen
JUNE 8TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
The reserve motor life-boat City of Bradford was being taken by a Ballycotton crew from Ballycotton to Baltimore, when about 2.30 in the afternoon she saw a fishing boat two miles...
At the Height of the Storm
From the painting by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., presented by the artist to the Institution..
Category: Drawings
Notes of the Quarter
The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
Category: Articles
His Royal Highness Prince Philip One of the First Visitors to the Rnli Stand Was Shown the Atlantic 21 By Major-General Ralph Farrant Chairman of the Institution and An Il
His Royal Highness Prince Philip, one of the first visitors to the RNLI stand, was shown the Atlantic 21 by Major-General Ralph Farrant, chairman of the Institution, and an ILB crew member from Southwold, Roger Trigg.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ford Fisher, of Barrow
Dungeness, Kent. — At about [11.30 M. on the 10th December, 1937,information was received from a local boatman that a steamer was aground off the No. 2 Station. A whole S.S.^T gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and heavy rain. The No. 2...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles