LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Regina Mary at Looe
The naming of the D Class lifeboat took place during the town's Festival of the Sea. The threeday event is held every two years and has a strong RNLI flavour. As well as the naming ceremony, the Earl and Countess of Wessex visited the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whitby
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE On the 23rd February, 1946, the Whitby life-boat rescued a member of the crew of the fishing boat Easter Morn, who was washed overboard.
LIFE-BOATMAN JOHN ROBERT HARLAND was awarded the silver...
Category: Medals
An Impressive Rescue at Newhaven
IT was just after dark on the 26th of March (at 7.12 p.m.) when the coast- guard at Newhaven reported a trawler drifting shorewards, something less than a mile south-east of the harbour.
Quarter of an hour later he said she...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Transporting Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
Category: Articles
Aldborough
The life-boat formerly placed at Sizewell- Gap, on the east coast of Suffolk, has been for the present transferred to Aldborough, five miles farther south, as a more serviceable spot, and where it can be...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED by THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1872
CAPTAIN HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., R.N., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide second...
Category: Meetings
Remember the Life-Boat
Come, now, a cheer for tho Life-boat And its gallant fearless crew; Only give them a chance, lads, And you'll see what they can do.
No matter how dirty tho weather, Or how fierce the wind may blow, They're ready...
Category: Poetry
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 12th January, 1905.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat on this station has been replaced by a new 10-oared Life-boat, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, constructed according to the latest designs. The cost of the new Life-boat, which is named the Tom and Ida,...
Category: Articles