LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Irish Silver Medallist
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent presents the silver medal to Coxswain Richard Walsh of Rosslare Harbour. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (16)
MAY 1ST. - DUNGENESS, KENT. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only oil and wreckage could be found. - Rewards, £21 6s..
None (8)
APRIL 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. Red flares had been reported, but a search revealed nothing.-Rewards, £19 7s.
An Aeroplane (33)
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - WALMER, KENT. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £11 1s. 6d.
Royal Visitors
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., visited the headquarters of the life-boat service at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, on 11th March. During his tour of the building the Duke of Kent visited all departments and met members of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jumping for joy
Fearless RNLI supporters jumped into the record books in June when they smashed the record for the most tandem skydives in one day.
On Saturday 14 June, 323 fundraisers around the UK jumped from a height of 3,048m, with 25...
Category: Articles
July Morn
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Moelfre lifeboat station was informed by Holyhead Coastguard at 0845 on Sunday September 21, 1980, that the yacht July Morn had reported that she was in difficulties, her rudder broken, 100 yards off...
End of a Voyage to New Zealand
AT 4.58 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1954, the Hartland coastguard rang up the Clovelly life-boat station with the news that the motor ketch Progress, of Bideford, was in distress under the lee of Lundy Island. The trawler Hosanna...
Category: Services
Fundraising
Selling gifts and souvenirs is an excellent way of raising both funds and the profile of the lifeboat service. RNLI (Sales) provides a range of products for the wide variety of shops and events run by volunteers. In 2001 its turnover was...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Vistula
OCT. 9TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M. that the S.S. Vistula, of Gothenburg Sweden, had been sunk by enemy action on the previous day twenty-five miles off Unst, that nine of her crew had...