LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Gabriel Second Lifeboat Presented to the Rnli By Major Gabriel Outside Guildhall London on Board Are Major Gabriel and Sir Hugh Wontner Lord Mayor of Lo
Mary Gabriel, second lifeboat presented to the RNLI by Major Gabriel, outside Guildhall, London. On board are Major Gabriel and Sir Hugh Wontner, Lord Mayor of London, with Commander D. B. Cairns (second from left), Chief of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steamship Boeton
At 12.45 A.M.
on the 16th January, during an ex- ceedingly thick fog, signals of distress were heard, and a message was received stating that a vessel was ashore to the north of the town. The Honorary Secretary of the...
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Category: Articles
The S.S. Barnhill
DECEMBER 7TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 4.55 A.M. the Fairlight coastguard reported that two soldiers were either stranded on the Regiment on the wreck. They had gone out in wreck of the S.S. Barnhill, off Langley Point, a...
Notes of the Quarter
THE PERIOD of a little over a quarter of a century during which the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was the Institution's President, will almost certainly be looked back upon by future historians of the life-boat service as one of...
Category: Articles
Falmouth: the 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Elizabeth Ann Is Named at the Customs House Quay Photograph By Courtesy of 'Falmouth Packet'
Falmouth: The 52ft Arun lifeboat Elizabeth Ann is named at the Customs House Quay. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Falmouth Packet'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Standard Bearer and Ilb: the Bonds Between Guides and Lifeboat Service Were Drawn Even Closer By the Dedication at Hartlepool Cleveland on April 24 of Guide Friends
Standard bearer and ILB: The bonds between Guides and lifeboat service were drawn even closer by the dedication at Hartlepool, Cleveland, on April 24 of Guide Friendship III, the third Atlantic 21 given to the Institution by Guides, Rangers... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Wickham of Rosslare Harbour
JAMES WICKHAM, a former Rosslare Harbour coxswain, died on the 6th of December, 1953, at the age of 78.
Coxswain Wickham was a son of the late Coxswain Thomas Wickham of the Wexford life-boat. He himself succeeded his...
Category: Obituaries
The Blue Rock
LLANDDULAS, NORTH WALES.—The Life-boat Mary Jane Gould was launched at 10.5 A.M. on the 10th January, it having been reported that a small yacht was in distress opposite Beach House.
There was a strong W. wind then blowing...
Hyannis Massachusetts to Rockland Maine By M G K Pennell
THE OPPORTUNITY to visit overseas lifeboat organisations is usually limited to the four-yearly International Lifeboat Conference; to be invited, and spon-' sored privately, to spend a week in the United States for what was to prove a...
Category: Articles