LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Wreck on the Cornish Coast
WE have, on a previous page, given an account of the loss of valuable lives occasioned by an accident to a life-boat. The following is an interesting'and affecting narrative of the loss of a valuable life, illustrative of another phase...
Category: Articles
D Class Named at Lytham
Lytham lifeboat, John Kennedy, is launched down Lytham Jetty in front of the large crowd of guests and onlookers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Manx tales
The Isle of Man is an unusual location whose community is inextricably linked to the sea – and the RNLI
Set in the midst of the Irish Sea, encircled by all five nations of the UK and RoI, the Isle of Man (IoM) is actually...
Category: Articles
Rose of England and Yewdale
FEBRUARY 3 RD. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 8.35 A.M. a fisherman reported that two ships were being attacked by enemy aircraft. This was confirmed by the coastguard. A light breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 8.45 A.M. the motor...
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Aldeburgh. Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-Boat
ON 27th May, H.R.H. the Prince George, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. This is the seventh Motor Life-boat to be named by the Prince.
The Aldeburgh boat is the first of a new type...
Category: Inaugurations
Gallant Life-Boatmen of Flamborough. The Rescue of An Injured Boy
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to July 31st, 1951 ....
77,419 Gallant Life-boatmen of Flamborough The...
Category: Services
Welcome to Blyth: Rnlb Shoreline (R) Arrives In Company With Blyth's Previous Lifeboat the 46Ft 9In Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No 8) (C) and the 52Ft Harriett Princess Alexandra Of
Welcome to Blyth: RNLB Shoreline (r.) arrives in company with Blyth's previous lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) (c.) and the 52ft Harriett Princess Alexandra of Kent (I.) temporarily stationed at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Take Me to Your Lifeboat...
Take me to your lifeboat...
Hunstanton lifeboatmen examine what at first they thought was a UFO. The huge 'floating spaceship', fitted with sophisticated equipment and electronics, was recovered during a call-out in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Works of Peace. Life-Boat Services In 1869 and 1870
AMIDST wars and rumours of wars, whilst | the two leading nations of Western Europe are engaged in mortal strife—amidst the groans and cries of tens of thousands of wounded and dying men, and the tears and lamentations of countless numbers...
Category: Articles
Coxswain John Petit of St.Peter Port Receives from Hrh the Duke of Kent a Third Bar to His Bronze Medal; It Was for the Service to the Greek Freighter Cantonad In Last
Coxswain John Petit of St Peter Port receives from HRH The Duke of Kent a third bar to his bronze medal; it was for the service to the Greek freighter Cantonad in last January's storms. John Petit has also been awarded the silver medal,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs