LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Second Hen Island Challenge Race
The second Hen Island Challenge Race, for home-built craft which have cost no more than £25 and which have never before put to sea, was sailed in Northern Ireland last October; Portaferry D class inflatable lifeboat acted as one of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1929. Presentation of Prizes In the London District
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 6th February the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of prizes won in the Life-boat Essay Competi- tion in London (consisting of schools in the London County...
Category: Articles
The Greek Motor Vessel Nafsiporos (1)
Douglas, Isle of Man; Holy head and Moelfre, Anglesey - On 2nd December, 1966, the Douglas, Holyhead and Moelfre life-boats were launched to the Greek motor vessel Napiporos. A full account of this service, for which two gold medals were...
By Courtesy of Francois Martin and League of Red Cross Societies
Lieutenant David Stogdon, Staff Inspector (inshore rescue boats), seated by IRB engine during the relief operations in East Pakistan. With him (centre) is Mr. - View image in PDF
Chowdhury, Aga Khan Ranger Scout.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sarah Todd and David Collins Surrounded By Other Children from Fairfield Primary School Penarth
Sarah Todd and David Collins, surrounded by other children from Fairfield Primary School, Penarth, present a cheque for £90 to Captain W. G.
Sommerfield, honorary secretary of Penarth station branch, and to Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Queen: Patron of the Institution
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give her patron- age to the Institution. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who has been a patron since 1937, and Her Majesty Queen Mary, who has been a patron since 1911,...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Lt E. Gough, the RNLI's staff officer (Communications), sent the message Uniform Whisky One (UW1) to the Boys' Brigade at Aigburth, Liverpool, after they had raised £36 by mounting a display about the sea, doing figure marching...
Category: Donations
A Roam Through the Annual Report
The Annual Report of the Institution for 1929 will be issued shortly after the Annual Meeting of the Governors on 11th April, and we publish the following article in the hope that many of those who have in the past considered the Annual...
Category: Annual Reports
The S.S. Trignac
In smooth but very foggy weather on the 27th July, information reached St.
| Peter's Po:t during the afternoon that a vessel had stranded off Perrelle Bay, and within half an hour the Life-boat Vincent Wilkinson, KrTt...
Emily, of North Shields
WEST HARTLEPOOL AND REDCAR.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 5th February night signals of distress were observed from the direction of the South Gare, at the entrance of the Kiver Tees. It was blowing a gale from E.N.E., with snow, and a heavy sea was...