LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pulling Together
The Jersey and Guernsey crews came together again to present the cheque to Jurat Dave Lowe who was standing in for the appeal chairman Jurat Len Moss. - View image in PDF
Photo Brian Green. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) a Fairly Complicated Kit
(Right) A fairly complicated kit - a dismantled outboard powerhead shows how the engines are inversion proofed at the Centre.
(Below) Putting a brave face on it. James Magness from Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire gets the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
None (106)
DECEMBER 5TH. - TENBY. PEMBROKESHIRE.
The constant flashing of the SOSsignal was seen, probably from a boat which had been attacked but nothing could be found. At daybreak a large convoy was seen in. the distance and it may...
An Aeroplane (122)
AUGUST 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea in the estuary of the River Dee, but nothing was found. - Rewards : New Brighton, £9 5s.; Hoylake, £17 10s..
An Aeroplane (164)
OCTOBER 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down off the Lincolnshire coast, but neither the lifeboat nor aeroplanes could find anything. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 4s. 6d..
Campbeltown
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE On the 16th March, 1946, the Campbeltown life-boat rescued fifty-four persons from the American steamer Byron Darnton.
COXSWAIN DUNCAN NEWLANDS was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..
Category: Medals
An Aeroplane (8)
SEPTEMBER 27TH - 28TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. Mr. Geoffrey de Havilland was testing a new type of aeroplane, before attempting to break the world’s high speed record. It crashed in the sea. The life-boat made two searches, but failed...
Open House
The RNLI Headquarters site, which includes the Lifeboat College, opens its doors to the public on 9–10 July.
Join us in Poole, Dorset, for exciting displays, demonstrations and lots of activities for children!
Category: Articles
Gifts from Six Continents
The Institution has had in recent months gifts from Switzerland, Bengal, Syria, Abyssinia, the Gold Coast, Northern Rhodesia, Texas, Peru, New South Wales, New Zealand and Ascension Island. That is, from all six continents, and the South...
Category: Articles
What's On
THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING LIFEBOATS
26 January–22 April
Poole Museum, Dorset
Calm Before the Storm: The Art of Photographing Lifeboats celebrates the past and present of the RNLI. Glass plate images of...
Category: Articles