LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duchess of York Visits Rnli Stand
While attending the South of England show at Ardingly in June, HRH The Duchess of York visited the RNLI stand, where she was introduced to Ken Everard, then coxswain of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat.
The Duchess also spoke to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Loss of Life from Shipwreck on Our Coasts
CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Boats St. Anne and Cymba, of Kilmore Quay
OCTOBER 11TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
During the morning, while several fishing boats were out, a strong wind sprang up, and by 12.30 in the afternoon it was blowing a gale from the north, with squalls, a rough sea, and...
Appeal on Behalf of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The Angel of Death laughed aloud in his glee, As he wildly careered o'er the pitiless sea : To the winds and the waters he spake but a word, And the wind and the waters grew mad as they heard.
He laid his cold hand on...
Category: Poetry
The American Steamers Am-Mer-Mar and The Luray Victory, of Los Angeles
JANUARY 30TH - 31ST. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.20 at night, just after the lifeboat had returned from the American steamer Am-Mer-Mar, which had gone aground on the Goodwin Sands, but had got off without help, the Deal coastguard reported another...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 12.—Mr. W. J. Burden, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Teignmouth Life-Boat Station
THERE has been a Life-boat of the Institution at Teignmouth, in South Devon, for 76 years, and for well over half that time Mr. W. J. Burden (who is one of three honorary Life-boat workers of the same name) has been its Honorary Secretary...
Category: Articles
The Late Coxswain Theodor T. L. Neilson of Wells Received the Thanks of the R.N.L.I, Inscribed on Vellum for Searching for a Crashed Lancaster Bomber Off the Norfolk Coast on 14Th July, 1942, A
The late Coxswain Theodor T. L. Neilson of Wells received the thanks of the R.N.L.I, inscribed on vellum for searching for a crashed Lancaster bomber off the Norfolk coast on 14th July, 1942, and (below) a reproduction of the painting by L.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: the Crew of the Lytham St.Annes
Below: The crew of the Lytham St Annes lifeboat ON-73, Charles Biggs, who saved twelve of the crew of the Mexico in 1886.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. Claude Hart of the Lizard
MR. CLAUDE M. HART, secretary of the station at The Lizard, Cornwall, retired at the end of last September after serving for 39 years. He had then passed his 79th year. He brought to his work for the Life-boat Service a great love of the sea...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
During 1975 Dublin branch and ladies' guild achieved the fine result of £24,000. Of this amount £5,874 came from the lifeboat shop run by Mrs Montague Kavanagh and her helpers, and £4,198 was raised in a one-day spring...
Category: Donations