LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Used Postage Stamps and Covers
FOR THE PAST YEAR members of the staff of HM Prison Dartmoor and a number of the inmates have combined in a voluntary stamp scheme to help the RNLI. Used British and foreign postage stamps have been collected, sorted, graded, made up into...
Category: Articles
A Thrilling Rescue Among the Rocks
ON Saturday, 19th November last, the St. Helier life-boat took part in another midnight rescue two months after that which earned Coxswain Thomas King a Gold Medal and his crew bronze medals, last September 14th. This time the station...
Category: Services
Feature: Reader Survey
The Lifeboat is the RNLI's main contact with you, our supporters, so we are keen to ensure that it is doing its job well. To help us understand your needs better, we sent out 25,000 questionnaires with the autumn 2003 magazine. Thank you...
Category: Articles
Jeune Prosper and Plymouth, and French Lugger St. Clement
PADSTOW.—About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 20th February, the schooner Jeune Prosper, bound from Swansea to Bordeaux, was seen running before a strong N.W. gale for Padstow Harbour. The Lifeboat Albert Edward was launched as speedily...
Adventure, George and Margaret and Louisa Twyzell (1)
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumber- land.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned the Blyth life-boat station to say a man at Cambois had reported that a fishing coble appeared to be in difficulties in...
Lifeboat Services November and December 1985 January and February 1986
November and December, 1985, January and February, 1986 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: December 25 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: November 6 and December 13 Alderney, Channel Islands 33ft Bride: January 17 and 30 (twice) Amble,...
Category: Services
Rocks and gully between Little Fistral Bay and Fistral Beach
Rocks and gully between Little Fistral Bay and Fistral Beach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI News
THE ANNUAL MEETINGS - 1994 AGM and APA News The Institution's Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards will, as usual, take place in London at the South Bank Centre, this year on Tuesday 10 May...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boat at Boulogne
IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
Category: Articles
Two Fishing Luggers, the Louisa and Beauty
NEWHAVEN. — The Life-boat Michael Henry was launched at 4 P.M. on the 5th July, and proceeded to the assistance of two fishing luggers, the Louisa and Beauty, of Brighton, each carrying a crew of three men, which were about sixteen miles out...