LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Brigand
Weymouth, Dorsetshire.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 15th of September, 1949, a boat owner reported that his sailing boat Brigand was missing with a man and a woman on board. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at...
The Motor Coble Premier
MAY 5TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At daybreak the motor coble Premier went out to attend to her crab pots.
As the wind and sea were rising the life-boat crew assembled. By early afternoon a strong north-easterly wind was...
The Annual Meetings 2000
The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 18 May 2000, once again took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The morning AGM allowed Chairman David Acland, who retires at the end of July, to...
Category: Meetings
The Cromer Lightvessel
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.25 on the morning of the 2nd of October, 1954, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Yarmouth asked if the life-boat would fetch a very sick man from the Cromer lightvessel. At 11.40 the No. 1 life- boat Henry...
The Maggie Jane
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.1 early on the morning of the 1st of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning red flares about half-a-mile south-south-west of Lowestoft...
The Humber Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 20th of February, 1961, the coxswain superintendent was asked by the Trinity House depot at Great Yarmouth to land an injured man from the Humber lightvessel. When the life- boat City of...
The King Returns
Over 120 Elvis lookalikes, gangsters, Vegas girls, and other Vegas-style characters attended a glitzy Viva Las Vegas' RNLI fundraising party on 10 November at Fifteen 05 in central London. The evening included a star performance from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Schooner Hispaniola
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1949, a telephone message was received that a converted schooner, the Hispaniola, which was being used by a film com- pany, was dragging her anchor close inshore in the...
Notes of the Quarter
IN 1957, for the second year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total figure was 716, and the last two years have been the only years in time of peace in which the figure of 700 was exceeded.
Category: Articles
The 18Th International Conference
The 18th International Conference Delegates representing 27 different countries were given a very full programme to follow during the 18th International Lifeboat Conference held in the week of the flotilla at the Royal Bath Hotel in...
Category: Meetings