LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Prince of Wales and the Hastings Life-Boat
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Hastings on 6th April to open the White Rock Pavilion and the new Promenade, he went aboard the Life-boat which was drawn up outside the Life-boat House. Beside the House the fishermen had built a remarkable...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 8th October, 1891.
Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence,...
Category: Committee
Emma and a Motor Boat
JUNE 2ND. - DOVER, KENT. The lifeboat rescued twenty-three men from the Swedish steamer Emma and fifteen. British soldiers from a disabled motor boat.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Ruby and Curlew
Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.13 p.m. on 26th October, 1969, news was received that red flares had been sighted off Broadstairs bay. At 7.30 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings in a slight south westerly wind with a...
The Irish Steamer Kerrymore
NOVEMBER 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 12.55 in the morning the watchman reported rockets and flares from a ship between South Shear Buoy and Tuskar, and at 1.5 the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A southerly...
Last Autumn Jeff Needham (R) a Member of the Fund Raising Committee Presented a Plaque to Ron Ride a Member of the River Thames Branch and Also of Shor
Last autumn Jeff Needham (r.), a member of the Fund Raising Committee, presented a plaque to Ron Ride, a member of the River Thames branch and also of Shoreline, who has raised more than £1,400 on his premises in three... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
County of Ayr, of Glasgow,
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 19th March, the weather being fine and clear, and the wind moderate, the ship County of Ayr, of Glasgow, bound from Glasgow to Batavia, stranded on the Jack>s Hole- a Part of the Arklow Banks. whlch...
Four Sailing Dinghies and the Atlantic College Boat Aphrodite
Atlantic College, Glamorganshire.
At 2.30 p.m. on 28th October, 1965, while the two IRB's (Nos. 33 and 38) were on exercise, with four sailing dinghies and the Atlantic College boat Aphrodite, the breeze freshened. The...
The photograph at the top of the page shows ex-Coxswain Richard Evans, of Moelfre, Anglesey, the holder of two gold medals, and ex-Mechanic/Second Coxswain Evan Owen, also of the Moelfre boat, stepping ashore
The photograph at the top of the page shows ex-Coxswain Richard Evans, of Moelfre, Anglesey, the holder of two gold medals, and ex-Mechanic/Second Coxswain Evan Owen, also of the Moelfre boat, stepping ashore at Tower Pier for the reception... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Major-General Ralph Farrant Chairman Rnli Accepts Cheque for £30000 to Provide An Atlantic 21 and Boathouse for Abersochfrom Malcolm Timmins Chairman
Major-General Ralph Farrant, chairman, RNLI, accepts cheque for £30,000 to provide an Atlantic 21 and boathouse for Abersochfrom Malcolm Timmins, chairman, Wolverhampton branch. Looking on: (I. to r.) Councillor Ted Mitchell, appeal... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs