LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Janet
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1952, the sailing boat Janet, racing with a crew of two about two hundred yards off shore, was seen to capsize, and the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and...
The Best Essay
BY ALFRED ROBINSON (12}), Warple Way Mixed School, Wandsworth.
Why I admire the Life-Boatman.
MOST of us have had the pleasure of a holiday by the sea during the summer, and probably have enjoyed the...
Category: Articles
The Royal Air Force and the Life-Boat Service Entertain One Another
The Royal Air Force and The Life-Boat Service Entertain One Another. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £163 at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.
This is their seventeenth annual col- lection and they have now collected* over...
Category: Articles
Message from the Chairman
Towards the close of a year in which greater demands were made on the life-boat service than ever before, I would like to congratulate everyone connected with the service on their splendid achievements and to wish them all a very happy...
Category: Articles
The Late Queen Alexandra
BY the death of Queen Alexandra on 20th November, 1925, the Institution, loses one of its three Royal Patrons, Queen Alexandra had been associated with the work of the Institution for forty-two years, It was in 1883, as Princess of Wales,...
Category: Obituaries
The Ramsgate Life-Boat and the Ketch "Lord Hamilton."
AT half-past two in the afternoon, of 12th February last, the Ramsgate Life- boat and tug were called out by a message from the Coast Guard that a vessel— found afterwards to be the ketch Lord Hamilton—was ashore on the north-east part of...
Category: Services
Gpt to the Rescue
Employees of the Poole-based telecommunications company GPT recently donated £300 to the Institution. The money will be used to purchase much needed protective clothing for lifeboatmen.
Brian Woolgar from GPT is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Returning from the Rescue
The Motor Life-boat, Greater London, at Southend on-Sea (Essex), returning with five men and a woman, the crews of three barges in distress at the mouth of the Thames, on 23rd November, 1930. The mast of one barge which sank can be seen in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left. the Us Coastguard
Left. The US Coastguard is a government-funded body which has roles other than lifesaving. The 44ft cutter pictured here was the basis for the RNLI's Waveney class, the first class of fast lifeboat in the Institution's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs