LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glance, Green Flag, Safe Return and Jackdaw
COURTOWN, IRELAND. — On the 16th October, at I P.M., the Alfred and Ernest Life-boat was called out by signals of distress, and brought ashore fourteen men from the fishing-boats Glance, Green Flag, Safe Return, and Jackdaw, of Arklow,...
A Fishing Coble
A N.N.E. gale suddenly sprang up off Newbiggin on the 17th April whilst the fishing cobles were at sea, causing the sea to become very rough and rendering their return very risky. The Life-boat Ada Lewis was launched soon after noon, and...
Life-Boat Model Wins First Prize
A CUP, which was offered by the Daily Express for the best model of a boat in a competition staged in connection with the National Boat Show at Earls Court, was won by Mr. Arthur Sallis of Brighton. His model was of the Plymouth life-boat,...
Category: Awards
Eventide (3)
Newbiggin, Blyth, Amble and Tynemouth, Northumberland - On 5th August, 1966, life-boats from these stations carried out a search for the missing fishing coble Eventide whose crew of three - a father and two sons - were all at some time...
Station Tours
THE Esso Petroleum Co. now produce an attractive leaflet which is given away at garages suggesting routes for motorists. One of these, 'Tiger Trail Number Two', is largely devoted to life-boat stations in Cornwall. Another such...
Category: Articles
Year of the Lifeboat 1 Pint Queens Ware Mug By Wedgwood Is Illustrated (Black on Cream) With Portrait of Sir William Hillary Founder of Rnli and Reproduction of Pai
'Year of the Lifeboat' I pint Queens Ware mug by Wedgwood is illustrated (black on cream) with portrait of Sir William Hillary, founder of RNLI, and reproduction of painting of a lifeboat attending a wreck at the mouth of the Tyne,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Appledore
The naming and blessing of Manchester and District No 32, the new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat to be stationed at Appledore. The ceremony took place on Friday February 7, 1986, in Manchester and the photograph shows (I) Mr Tom Booth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI Scoops Two Golds!
The awards were made at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 9 December 1997, and the photograph (right) shows Edward Wake-Walker, the RNLI's head of public relations, together with Derek Humphries, managing director of Burnett... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tea Money from the Home Guard.
Major P. S. Watkins, D.S.O., vice-president of the Southborough and District Branch, in Kent, makes tea in the early mornings, for members of the Home Guard who sleep at his house. In return they contribute to the Life-boat Service. He has...
Category: Articles
Noreg
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the morn- ing of the 5th of February, 1948, the Swedish steamer Noreg, of Gothenburg, bound with ore from Spain to Silloth, was at anchor one and a half miles east-north-east of Ramsey. She sig- nalled that she was in...