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Happy Return:

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Happy return: the Duchess of Kent paid a visit to Torbay lifeboat station on September 24 to see again the lifeboat she officially named 11 years earlier and which has since saved over 200 lives. She is seen here beside Coxswain Arthur... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Fishing Boats (2)

Date: March 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 325

At 1 P.M. on the 3rd January the pulling and sailing life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched, as the breaking seas made the harbour entrance risky for the fishing boats. The wind was freshening from the N. to N.E. Eleven local boats were out,...

Dear Reader

Date: Spring 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 599 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2012

Anniversaries are big news this year! It's the Diamond Jubilee of our Patron, a century since the Titanic sank (page 48) and the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, a passionate supporter of the RNLI.

I'm writing...

Category: Articles

An Aeroplane

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

Dfracombe, Devonshire. — At about 1.35 P.M. on the llth November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a passing steamer, going east, was flying a signal indicating aircraft in distress. A squally S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea...

None (1)

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.

D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...

Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...

Category: Awards

A Four-Engined R.A.F. Bombing Aeroplane

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JULY 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.46 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported that a four-engined bombing aeroplane, belonging to the R.A.F., had crashed in the sea about two and three-quarter miles east of the life-boat station. A light...

Madeline Rickmers

Date: February 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 179

RAMSGATE,NORTH DEAL AND WALMER In response to signals fired by the North Sand Head and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, Mary Sommerville, stationed at North Deal, and Givil Service No. 4, of Walmer, were launched on...

A Dinghy (6)

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Swanage, Dorset - At noon on I4th August, 1966, a small sailing dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Durlston Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched immediately in a light south westerly wind and a slight sea. It was two hours after...

Busby

Date: June 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 424

Ramsgate, Kent - At 4.14 p.m. on; 6th February, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that the small tanker Busby was in difficultiei with her steering gear broken down off Ramsgate harbour. The life-boatMichael and Lily Davis slipped...