LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Commander St. Vincent Nepean
WE greatly regret to have to record the death of Commander St. Vincent Nepean, R.N., M.V.O., which took place on the 28th March. Commander Nepean joined the Institution as a District Inspector of Life-boats in 1883 and became, successively,...
Category: Obituaries
The Serious Business of the Lottery Draw Over the Chairman and Acting Director Join Ed Stewart and the Children In the Fun of 'Crackerjack!'
The serious business of the lottery draw over, the chairman and acting director join Ed Stewart and the children in the fun of 'Crackerjack!'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Honorary Secretary Stanley Power {Right) Introduces the Dunmore East Crew to Mr Peter Barry Minister for Transport and Power In the Republic of Ireland and Mrs Barry
Honorary Secretary Stanley Power {right) introduces the Dunmore East crew to Mr Peter Barry, Minister for Transport and Power in the Republic of Ireland, and Mrs Barry, who named the lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Little and Broad Haven May 9: Handing Over and Dedication of New Ilb Donated By the City of Coventry Photograph By Courtesy of a Williams
Little and Broad Haven, May 9: Handing over and dedication of new ILB donated by the City of Coventry. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of A. Williams.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Jill Cater and Mrs Sylvia Hillier With Brighton's New Atlantic 21 Class Lifeboat Graham Hillier and Tony Cater at the Naming Ceremony on 29 September
Mrs Jill Cater and Mrs Sylvia Hillier with Brighton's new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Graham Hillier and Tony Cater at the naming ceremony on 29 September. (Photo courtesy Evening Argus, Brighton). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Moving With the Times
From humble beginnings in London's Austin Friars, RNLI Head Office has come a long way from its original one-room operation...
The RNLI started life in the City of London, then the financial centre of the world, and the...
Category: Articles
Ellen, of Liverpool
On the 13th November, the schooner Ellen, of Li- verpool, laden with freestone, on entering the River Dee, struck on the bar at its mouth, in a strong breeze from the S.S.E.
Information of the same having been con- veyed...
At Tenby Branch's Agm the Crew Presented a Cheque for £1000 Towards the Cost of An Ilb Boathouse the Money Was Raised With Football Matches a Dance and a Spons
At Tenby branch's AGM the crew presented a cheque for £1,000 towards the cost of an ILB boathouse. The money was raised with football matches, a dance and a sponsored tow of the ILB on her launching trolley to Pembroke Dock and back... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
It's Late It's Dark and It's Raining But the Oakley Is Ashore and the Princess Royal Is on Her Carriage for the First Time So All We Have to Do Now Is Launch Her Again A
It's late, it's dark and it's raining, but the Oakley is ashore and The Princess Royal is on her carriage for the first time. So all we have to do now is launch her again and then retrieve her before we go home to bed…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Cutter
Reserve life-boat.—At 9.30 on the 10th of November, 1953, the reserve life- boat Thomas Markby put out from a shipbuilders' yard at Littlehampton in a swell and light south-south-east breeze. She was to undergo machin-ery trials...