LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
WINDOWS INTO THE PAST
A stunning collection of glass plate negatives brings the RNLI’s lifesaving history into a new light
The RNLI’s Heritage Team are always on the look-out for artefacts and materials that document the lifesaving work of the...
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Profile of the Offshore Fleet
Lifeboats stationed round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland WATSON AND BARNETT, Oakley, Waveney, Thames, Arun or Clyde . . . names which conjure up the lifeboats of the RNLI's offshore fleet, each with her own characteristics, her...
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Jayne Edmunds, Aged 11, Was Presented With the First Churchill Award for Bravery at Sea During the London Boat Show.
Jayne Edmunds, aged 11, was presented with the first Churchill award for bravery at Sea during the London Boat Show. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Daily Express.. - View image in PDF
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Special Gifts
From Mid-Atlantic.
WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read...
Category: Donations
His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent Accompanied By the Institution's Director, Brian Miles (Right) Talks to RNLI Chief Technical Officer David Hudson
His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent accompanied by the Institution's Director, Brian Miles (right) talks to RNLI Chief Technical Officer David Hudson (left) before going afloat in the prototype Trent and Severn class lifeboats during his... - View image in PDF
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Coronation Supplement. The Royal Family and the Life-Boat Service
WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
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Belgian Motor Life-Boats
IN The Lifeboat for November, 1925, we published an article on the Life- boat Service of Belgium. At that time there were on the thirty-five miles of the Belgian coast ten Life-saving Posts, each provided with a Pulling Life-boat and Rocket...
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Cherbourg to Hamble By John Spicer
YE OLDE WHYTE HARTE, Hamble, has for a number of years supported the RNLI, culminating in a total of £1,500 being raised in 1979. Each year new ideas have been thought of to raise money and last year during opening hours and amid much...
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The 52Ft Arun Relief Lifeboat Edith Emilie Moored at the Rnli Poole Depot Quay for Her Naming
The 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Edith Emilie moored at the RNLI Poole depot quay for her naming.. - View image in PDF
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The Five Medallists at Festival Pier for a 'Photocell' Aboard the New Trent Class Prototype. Photo Maggie Murray/Format
The five medallists at Festival Pier for a 'photocell' aboard the new Trent class prototype. Photo Maggie Murray/Format. - View image in PDF
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