LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Tar and Grease."
Hand over Hand Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFUKD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" The items expended on this work were tar and grease."—Honorary Secretary's...
Category: Songs
The Naming of the 37Ft 6In Rother Lifeboat Rnlb Princess of Wales By Hrh the Princess of Wales
THE FRESHLY PAINTED and polished 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat to be named Princess of Wales sparkled against a backdrop of gentle mountains, their tops dusted with a light covering of snow.
The low winter sun's reflection...
Category: Inaugurations
Loch Lomond
North Pier L.S.A., Torry L.S.A. and the Aberdeen life-boat.—At 10.33 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1952, the Assistant Harbour Master reported that the steam trawler Loch Lomond, of Aberdeen, was in distress in the Navigation...
D.S.M. for Two Coxswains.
The King has awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to Coxswain Howard Primrose Cooper Knight, of the Ramsgat* life-boat, and Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of the Margate life-boat "for gallantry and determination when ferrying troops...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
In 1965 the life-boat service had by far its busiest year since the Institution was founded in 1824. There were 1,038 launches by life-boats on service and 462 by inshore rescue boats. Life-boats saved the lives of 562 people and IRBs...
Category: Articles
Recognise Him? He Is Mr. Kenneth H. H. Baily, of Queensbury Mansions, Bournemouth, the Leading England Football Team Supporter Who Is Also a Keen Supporter of the Life-Boat Service at Bourn
Recognise him? He is Mr. Kenneth H. H. Baily, of Queensbury Mansions, Bournemouth, the leading England football team supporter who is also a keen supporter of the life-boat service at Bournemouth. It was expected that he would find... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
With courage, nothing is impossible
The new RNLI memorial in Poole is a sculptural celebration of humanity at its best. But how did such an inspirational landmark come into being?
On a corner plot by a busy road, a metallic structure glints in the sunlight....
Category: Articles
Emperor of the French—His Rewards to British Seamen for Saving Life
COUNT WALEWSKI, late French Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, has obligingly forwarded to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution the following list of British seamen, to whom the Emperor of the French has, by imperial decrees,...
Category: Medals
Ceremonies
Eastbourne- Mersey Royal Thames Monday 6 September 1993 dawned fair over the Sovereign Harbour where Eastbourne's new Mersey class was to be named and dedicated by HRH Princess Michael of Kent.
The Princess was greeted...
Category: Inaugurations
Alan Chips In
Alan Smith from Harry Ramsden's serves up a feast to Kessock lifeboat crew members (1 to r); Norman MacRae, Donnie MacRae, Campbell Ross and Jacky MacLeod. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs