LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 20th of March, 1953, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent...
Category: Meetings
IRB Launches (1)
SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
some recent publications reviewed HEAVY WEATHER SAILING by K. Adlard Coles, revised by Peter Bruce published by Adlard Coles Nautical at £30 ISBN 07136 3431 6 'Heavy Weather Sailing' has long been the standard textbook on the...
Category: Articles
Close on £590 was raised at the annual Colchester flag day on 13th June, 1970,
Close on £590 was raised at the annual Colchester flag day on 13th June, 1970, and the earlier house-to-house collection. Both were organised by Mrs. Norman Clarke, secretary of the Colchester ladies' life-boat guild, whose husband... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Life-Boat Stations
DURING the last few months several addi- tional life-boat stations have been formed along our coasts, and some old boats replaced by others on an improved construction.
This is an important work, which we hope to see...
Category: Articles
Belfast Life-Boat Fete
The Life-boat and Steamer used in the Rescue Scene.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature: Come Together
On the morning of Thursday 20 May a coach set off early from RNLI HQ in Poole, full of excited and ever-so-slightly nervous RNLI staff. They were destined for the Barbican Hall in London and a day of rare celebration. They were to Literally...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Vessels Lead Us, The Golden Hope and Success
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AT HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.45 on the evening of the 2nd March, 1962, the coxswain was in radio communication from his own boat with three local motor fishing vessels, which were at sea in deteriorating weather...
Out of the gloom
A fisherman lay injured onboard the world’s largest trawler, 200 miles offshore of County Galway
It was just after 7pm on 23 January 2010 and the crew of the 144m trawler Annelies Ilena had caught 50 tonnes of scad (horse...
Category: Articles
Feature the Royal Charter Tragedy
The first Gold Medal to be awarded after the establishment of the Lifeboat journal was not to a lifeboatman but was for an outstanding act of individual bravery following the wreck of the Royal Charter near Moelfre, in Anglesey, on 26...
Category: Articles