LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., at Brixham. Inaugural Ceremony of the "George Shee."
ON 27th July, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, E.G., President of the Institu- tion, attended the Inaugural Ceremony of the Motor Life-boat at Torbay, and named the boat George Shee, after the late Secretary of the Institution.
Category: Inaugurations
The Pontoon Pile Driver Topmast No. 3
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.5 P.M. on the 3rd October, 1938, information was received at the life-boat station, through the police, that Topmast No. S, a pontoon pile driver of Southampton, which was at work in connexion with a sewer to...
The Oil Rig Neptune I
Scarborough and Teesmouth, Yorkshire - On i6th November, 1966 the Scarborough life-boat J. G. Graves of SJieffield and the Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season were launched to stand by the oil rig Neptune I.
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The "Lloyd's" Motor Life-Boat. Inaugural Ceremony at Cowes
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Stornoway, Island of Lewis, in the Northern Hebrides since 1887. Last year, owing to the increasing number of wrecks in the Southern Hebrides, it was decided to establish a Station at Barra Island, and...
Category: Inaugurations
Twelve Hours at Night on the Goodwins
ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...
Category: Services
George jumps at 97!
A 97-year-old man from Bournemouth is believed to have become the UK’s oldest skydiver after jumping out of a plane at 3,000m for the RNLI.
George Moyse jumped, in a tandem dive with an instructor, on 4 April. His grandson...
Category: Articles
Oil Rig Orion Went Aground on the North West Shore of Guernsey on February I on Friday February 10 It Was Thought She Was Adrift: In Fact She Had Parted from Her B
Oil rig Orion went aground on the north west shore of Guernsey on February I .
On Friday February 10 it was thought she was adrift: in fact, she had parted from her barge, which had sunk, but was still held aground by her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Medal Service at Cromer
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 109 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 67 LIVES RESCUED - 63,058 from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 26th, 1932 Silver Medal Service at Cromer.
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Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS — Her Majesty the Queen.
List of the Two Hundred and Forty-two Life-Boat Stations...
Category: Advertisement
The Fourteenth Collecting Box to Be Put Before the Public In the Chertsey Area: This One Is at the Leisure Centre Thorpe Park and Was Unveiled By Rnli Chairman the Duke of Atholl (I) In the Pres
The fourteenth collecting box to be put before the public in the Chertsey area: this one is at the leisure centre, Thorpe Park, and was unveiled by RNLI chairman, the Duke of Atholl (I.) in the presence of Terry Cat/iff, director of Leisure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs