LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Beatrice D
Margate, Kent.—At 7.16 on the even- ing of the 7th of July, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a small motor yacht was drifting out to sea near the feast Margate buoy. At 7.25 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service...
Sunwood
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.35 in the afternoon, on the 17th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, apparently deserted, was drifting, about a mile from Manorbier Point. At 2.45 the life-boat John...
Under the Shelter
The remote control, or extension, beside the mechanic's head as he sits at his controls. The cable for his transmitting microphone can be seen. The microphone itself is tucked into a box beside him. On the extension itself arc the... - View image in PDF
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"On Behalf of All Troops"
IN the course of two months the Institution has received cheques for £500 from the colonel at Calais commanding J12 Transit Camp of the British Forces in France. They come with the message: " On behalf of all troops who have passed...
Category: Articles
The Queen With (Left) the Chairman of the RNLI Commander F H R Swann OBE RNVR and the Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Lieut-Commander W L G D
Above: The Queen with (left) the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Commander F. H. R. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., and the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, Lieut.-Commander W. L. G. Dutton, R.D., R.N.R., aboard The Royal British Jubilee during the naming... - View image in PDF
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German Donation
The Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbruchiger—the German Life-boat Society—have sent the R.N.L.I. a donation of £147—half the proceeds from a concert they staged at which there was a brave showing of R.N.L.I. flags..
Category: Donations
The Spanish Ship Uribitate
INJURED SPANIARD Scarborough, Yorkshire. At n a.m.
on 8th October, 1963, a message was received from the coastguard stating that a man was seriously ill aboard the Spanish ship Uribitate, of Bilbao, and needed a doctor. The...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
TRAPPED UNDER SAIL Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 3.45 p.m. on nth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized between Brean Down and Cable Beacon.
The life-boat Calouste...
The John F. Kennedy
The new 44-foot steel life-boat John F. Kennedy which is to be based at Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, on trials off Lowestoft, Suffolk, where she was built by Brooke Marine Ltd. Five other 44-foot life-boats for the R.N.L.I, will be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Penarth - D Class
Guests and crew members with Penarth's new D class lifeboat at the handing over ceremony on 16 August 1989. Mrs Roma Cresswell and her husband John are in the centre flanked by crew members, with station honorary secretary Captain Graham... - View image in PDF
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