LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
HM COASTGUARD are to move their headquarters from London to Poole following the move already made by the RNLI. A new central search and rescue information room will be established at the new Coastguard headquarters. These moves were...
Category: Articles
The Record of 1925
Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
Category: Annual Reports
The Herring Boat Concord
Shortly after midnight on the 8-9th August, the Coxswain was informed by the Coastguard that a fishing-boat was ashore on the rocks behind Keith Inch.
There was a heavy sea running with a strong N.W. breeze at the time, and...
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE Eighth Christmas Party, given to poor children by the staff of the Institu- tion's Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 19th December at the Bromley Public...
Category: Articles
The Glasgow Ball
The Duke'and Duchess of Monlrose, the Earl and Countess of Glasgow, Cameron of Lochiel, the Marquis of Graham, Lady Helen Graham and other guests.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Blessing the Life-Boat
The Bishop of Plymouth at the annual fisherfolk's service on Plymouth Barbican on 25th, November, 1935. The Lord Mayor of Plymouth and 2,000 people were present.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
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Shirley recognised at Trearddur Bay
Shirley Rogerson, awarded the British Empire Medal in HM The...
Category: Articles
The Arklow Lightvessel
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 25th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights tele- phoned that a relative of a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel was seriously ill, and asked if the life-boat would...
The Life-Boat
The late BENJAMIN BUCK GREENE, Esq., of Kensington Palace Gardens . 100 - - The late WILLIAM BICHABDSOST, Esq., of Sheffield 50 - - The late Mrs. H. GLABKE, of Ellhoughton, Yorkshire . . 19 19 - Voted the thanks of the...
Category: Poetry
The Coningbeg Lightship
MARCH 23RD. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
A telegram was received at 5.30 in the afternoon asking that the life-boat might be used to bring off a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightship. The weather was too bad for an ordinary...