LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 8.37 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, it was noticed that a motor boat one mile northnorth- west of Cape Cornwall had fired a distress rocket. The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at 8.45 in a strong north-westerly wind and a very rough sea....
The Stromness Motor Lifeboat, "John A Hay."
(A Self-righter 42 ft. x II ft. 6 in., with a 30 h.p. Tylor Engine.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
While Touring Northern Ireland on April 4 Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution
While touring Northern Ireland on April 4, HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, called at Donaghadee lifeboat station and went out for a short trip in the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Arthur and Blanche Harris.
He... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent With a Posy
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent with a posy before the Wells naming ceremony was a big event for Storm Force member Melissa Walker, daughter of Coxswain/ Mechanic Graham Walker.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Poster Stamps of the Life-Boat Service (1)
GRACE DARLING. An early Life-boat heroine.
In 1838, she and her father rescued nine people stranded on a rock, survivors from the wrecked ship For far- shire, of Dundee. They won Silver Medals.
(From the...
Category: Advertisement
Below Right: RNLI President, the Duke of Kent
.Below right: RNLI President, the Duke of Kent, after formally naming Portrush's new Severn class lifeboat Katie Hannan. - View image in PDF
with Coxswain Robin Cardwell.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rose
A TOW IN A ROUGH SEA Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of November, 1947, a motor fishing boat was seen one mile to the westward, apparently broken down. On being signalled she replied that she did not need...
War on the water
On a windless Spring day off Ireland’s south coast, a magnificent steamship carrying almost 2,000 people was hit by a torpedo. It was a tragedy that would be felt around the world
The passenger...
Category: Articles
The Fund Raisers
Kipling in the Borders On Saturday March 9 The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh kindly allowed their home, Floors Castle in the Borders, to be the magnificent setting for a Kipling evening organised by the Honourable Mrs Henry Douglas-Home and...
Category: Articles