LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Crabbing Trawler Marie des Isles
Two calls IN GALE AND STORM force winds, Torbay lifeboat, the 54ft Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37) was launched on service twice on Friday November 14, 1980. The first call came from Brixham Coastguard at 1045: the crabbing...
52Ft Barnett Lifeboat Joseph Hiram Chadwick on Station at Galway Bay from 1968
52/r Harriett lifeboat Joseph Hiram Chadwick, on station at Galwav Bav from 1968 until 1977, when she was replaced by the present Barnett Frank Spiller Locke.
photograph by courtesy of National Geographical... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Moving With the Times
From humble beginnings in London's Austin Friars, RNLI Head Office has come a long way from its original one-room operation...
The RNLI started life in the City of London, then the financial centre of the world, and the...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
In her presidential address at the Institution's annual general meeting on 21st March, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, called attention to the remark- able changes which have taken place during her presidency.
It was...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1989 Continued from Previous Page
Continued from previous page Torbay, South Devon Relief 52ft Arun ON 1086: March 22, 25, 27, April 2 (four times), 15, 19, May 3, 11, 12 and 20 D class: April 1 and May 28 Trearddur Bay, Gwynedd D class: March 27, May 13 and 28 Troon,...
Category: Services
List of Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats
1856. Hornsea, Yorkshire.
1858. Skerries, Co. Dublin 1861. Aberystwith. . .
1857 Walmer 1857. Seaton Carew 1858. Fraserburgh . . .
1858. Carnsore, Co. Wexford 1859. Exmoath 1859. Lizard ....
Category: Donations
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co. Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly launched at 12,15 P.M...
Category: Services
Fiver II
Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 on the after- noon of the 12th of July, 1959, the life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.
32) was returning to her station from Dover after being on display at the Royal Show at Oxford, when the...
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1936
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held in Greater London on 19th May, carried out by ninety-two branches. The amount raised was £5,046, an increase of £138 on 1935.
The challenge shield for...
Category: Branches