LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Picture of Success
Lady Winifred Hilton with the Deputy Mayor of Chesterfield as he presents the painting to raffle winner, Commander S. Sampson RN(Retd). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peter Bath
Peter Bath who, with his predeceased wife Jean, were the donors of the relief Mersey class lifeboat Margaret Jean..
Category: Obituaries
Wolverhampton (Left)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trials - and Very Few Tabulations
The RNLI's latest lifeboat prototypes have been on trials around the coast as part of their evaluation and development.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Weymouth Station Branch Secretary
Weymouth station branch secretary Derek Sargent (fourth left) gratefully receives the cheque for £2,500 from Munro Ross, manager of the Crown Hotel.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vic & Billie Whiffen at Southend-On-Sea
The late Vic Whitten's brother, Edgar Whiffen and his wife at the naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John and Sarah, of Great Yarmouth
FEBRUARY 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 5.30 in the afternoon the coxswain received information from the coastguard that a fishing boat was flying a signal and appeared in need of help. A light north-by-west wind was...
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MARCH 8TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 2.30 in the afternoon the local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take to Oban a young girl who was ill with appendicitis and in a critical condition. The motor...
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JANUARY 1ST. - GALWAY BAY. The priest of the Inisheer Island was at Kilronan on Inishmore, where the Galway Bay life-boat is stationed. It was necessary that he should return to Inisheer on New Year’s Day. A very strong south-easterly wind...
Life-boats at Dunkirk
Nineteen of the Institution’s life-boats helped to bring off men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940. Two of these life-boats, Ramsgate and Margate, were manned by their own crews. They...
Category: Services