LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duchess of Kent at Bridlington and Tynemouth
THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, took part for the first time in naming ceremonies of life-boats when she Avent on March 8th to Bridlington and on March 10th to Tynemouth and named their new life-boats, the Tittle Morrison,...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Jersey's Grand Summer Ball on July 10 was held at Government House, Jersey, with the kind co-operation of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor General Sir Peter Whiteley and Lady Whiteley, president of the guild.
It...
Category: Donations
For the Third Year Ray Rushton Offered His Car a 1904 Wolseley to the Rnli for Sponsorship In Last November's Veteran Car Run His Passenger Was Charlie Smithers Co
For the third year Ray Rushton offered his car, a 1904 Wolseley, to the RNLI for sponsorship in last November's Veteran Car Run. His passenger was Charlie Smithers, Comedian of The Year in 1974. More than £3,000 was raised. In... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wet But Home the Plymouth Lifeboat Crew on the Early Morning of February 16: (I to R) Ray Jago Ian Watson Cyril Alcock Keith Rimmer and Coxswain John Dar
Wet but home, the Plymouth lifeboat crew on the early morning of February 16: (I to r) Ray Jago, Ian Watson, Cyril Alcock, Keith Rimmer and Coxswain John Dare. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Western Morning News. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Poznan, of Gdynia
AUGUST 20TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.16 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a large steamer aground on the Goodwin Sands. A light north-west wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the...
The Italian Vessel S.S. Concordia (1)
DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—On the night of the 20th January the s.s. City of Lahore, belonging to Liverpool, stranded on Kearney Point. The Life-boat John was launched and proceeded to the steamer. The captain requested the boat to stand by, which...
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Wreck Chart for 1866
FOR many years past we have been in the habit of making a few remarks on the Wreck Register, prepared by the Board of Trade, and presented to Parliament and we have done so principally with the view of directing attention to the loss of life...
Category: Annual Reports
The Late M. Albert, Inspector of Life-Boats to the French Life-Boat Society
IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...
Category: Obituaries
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th January, 1869. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.<...
Category: Committee