LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Filter by

You can search by year, volume, issue and/or content type.
Year:
Add a to date (optional)
Volume:
Add a to volume (optional)
Issue:
Add a to issue (optional)
Type of content:
You can search by vessel, date and/or lifeboat station.
Service date:
Add a to date (optional)
Clear all filters
13061 search results for 'royal family'
List view Card view

A Helicopter

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.7 on the even- ing of the llth October, 1961, the life- boat Michael and Lily Davis had just completed an exercise with a Royal Air Force helicopter off Ramsgate. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea...

The Lily

Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

Humber, Yorkshire.—Just before noon on the 31st May a small fishing boat, The Lily, of Grimsby, drifted ashore inside Spurn Point. She was in no immediate danger. A moderate N.N.W.

breeze was blowing, with a slight...

Thistle

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Eastbourne, Sussex.—The motor lifeboat Jane Holland was launched at 12.10 P.M. on the 23rd July, as it had been reported that the Royal Sovereign light-vessel was flying a distress signal.

A S.W. gale was blowing, with a...

Arbroath Lifeboat

Date: Spring 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 480

Arbroath lifeboat crew welcome to their boathouse lifeboatmen from The Netherlands Royal North and South Lifeboat Society (front row) who attended a course at the Robert Gordons Institute of Technology Offshore Marine Rescue Training Centre... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cogswell & Harrison Ltd

Date: June 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 424

THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL FLASHLIGHT WNALITE FLASHES fhe world's most powerful flashlight, specially mported from the U.S.A. This six-cell flashlight i 80,000 candle power and is entirely wateriroof, made of strong plasticand...

Category: Advertisement

A Dinghy (4)

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

Bangor, Co. Down; At 8.51 p.m. on 15th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Craigavad. At 8.57 the IRB launched in a strong, gusting to gale force...

Five Intrepid Members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club

Date: Winter 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 487

Five intrepid members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club, (7 to r) Paul Ward, Mike Boyce, Ian Burgess, Steve Towill and Colin Ward, ready to set out from their base camp at the Lansdowne public house, Dawlish. These men crawled— literally... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

HMS Challenger

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

FAI.MOUTH, NOVEMBER 15, 1987: harnessed into a helicopter strop, WEM J R Stevenson is lowered gently from the boat davit of his ship HMS Challenger to the deck of Falmouth's 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant after...

Lifeboats Live on In Oz

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

Lifeboats live on in Oz Ex-Arun lifeboat, Spirit of Tayside, was sold to the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol and placed on station at Port Stephens, New South Wales in September. This picture was taken as the boat was being lifted out of the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The S.S. High Wear

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

MARCH 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.

At 8.20 A.M. the coastguard reported a message from the S.S. High Wear that she was coming in with her engine-room flooded, that she was making water, and that a pilot should be ready. A few...