LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A YEAR's ADOPTION
When an IRB boat was displayed at Worple Road Infants' School, Isleworth, Micclesex, coupled with a talk on the life-boat service, the R.N.L.I. received letters of appreciation from some of the pupils. The letters were accompanied by...
Category: Donations
Surrounded By His Crew Fraserburgh Lifeboat Coxswain
Surrounded by his crew, Fraserburgh lifeboat coxswain, Captain John Sutherland, is presented with a maroon case full of money raised for the station by lifeboat enthusiast John Murdoch (r). In front of the group is a model made by John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Visitors Looking Round the Lobster Holding Tanks at Padstow Are Encouraged to Give to the Rnli Gil Lobb Whose Tanks They Are Is Seen Here Being Presented With a Plaque By Coxswain Trevor E
Visitors looking round the lobster holding tanks at Padstow are encouraged to give to the RNLI. Gil Lobb, whose tanks they are, is seen here being presented with a plaque by Coxswain Trevor England for his efforts, which this year alone, up... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Just In Case:
Just in case: a happy Tony Hunter (below right) the RNLI's chief buyer, stores, receives a case of brandv from David Shepherd, brand manager for Martell Cognac, a bottle of which is carried on all large lifeboats. The cognac has been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Stripped search Wmer lifeboats took part in a search for a drunken skinny dipper in the summer when a pile of clothing was found on the beach. Meanwhile, the nude swimmer was safely tucked up in bed. A fter taking a dip he had been unable...
A Vessel (8)
MARCH 20TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy, which had been moored in the harbour after the service the day before, put out at 3 P.M. and took a pilot out to a vessel, as the...
A Pontoon
FEBRUARY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
The naval authorities had asked the life-boat to go out to look for a partly submerged waterlogged pontoon, which a shore-boat had found earlier in the day, but had been unable to tow...
Shannon on station
The Shannon class – a new generation of all-weather lifeboat – is now ready to rescue after the first station lifeboat went on service at Dungeness, Kent.
The lifeboat, designed in-house by RNLI naval architects, harnesses...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Lake Nepigon
WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A ship's life-boat full of people came ashore 'at 9 A.M. on the 1st September. The officer in charge of her reported that she was from the s.s. Lake Nepigon, of Montreal, which had stranded on Arklow Bank, and that...
Gold Crown
The motor life- boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 8 P.M. on the 20th November, as the Cromer coastguard had reported that a vessel had run ashore at East Runton, and was burning distress signals. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...