LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guests of Honour:
Guests of honour: several lifeboatmen were among the guests at a special Variety Club of Great Britain lunch at London's Hilton Hotel in December, to honour HRH The Duke of Kent, the heroes of the lifeboat service and leading members of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charles Hunter-Pease Sales and Marketing Director
Charles Hunter-Pease, Sales and Marketing Director for Volvo Concessionaires (left) presents a cheque for £350.000 to Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI at the London Boat Show. The cheque represented the proceeds of the seven... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Friends In Saudi.
You'd be amazed at how far around the world support for the RNLI reaches. Employees of BAe Systems, who live in Saudi Arabia, attend a club, The Cage, which has raised a staggering £16,000 for the RNLI over the last eight years..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pancake Race
Friends and work colleagues from several Penarth supermarkets and highstreet stores got together on Shrove Tuesday to take part in a sponsored pancake race in aid of the RNLI.
The picture shows the Lord Mayor of Cardiff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hunstanton 's Boathouse Was Built In 1867.
Hunstanton 's boathouse was built n 1867. became a fisherman's store in 1931 when the station closed ana was re-opened in 1979. The view from the dunes at the lower left can be seen in the heading photograph.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portsmouth - Langstone Harbour - D Class Loni Raglan
The Right Honourable The Lord Raglan names Portsmouth's new D class inflatable Lord Raglan.
Funds for the new lifeboat were raised by the landlord and customers of a pub of the same name.
Photo Jeff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peterhead (1)
PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE On the 15th December, 1942, the Peterhead life-boat rescued the crew of twelve of the steam trawler Loch Wasdale, of Aberdeen.
CAPTAIN JAMES WINTER, harbour master, acting as coxswain, was awarded...
Category: Medals
Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescueboats during 1943 During the year life-boats were launched 411 times. Of these launches 249 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the...
Category: Services
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Nov. 1ST. - DOVER, KENT. At the request of the chief of staff., Naval Base, the motor life-boat Sir William Hillary was launched at 1.50 P.M., but the services rendered were not reported. The life-boat returned to her station at 7 P.M. -...
Eastbourne's D Class Inflatable
Eastbourne's D class inflatable comes ashore after another service later in the year. On the night that Ian Stringer won his Silver Medal it was pitch black, there was a 6ft sea, the lifeboat's port sponson was holed and she was full... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs