LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Motor Life-Boats at Walton and Clacton. Inaugural Ceremonies By H.R.H. Prince George, K.G.
Inaugural Ceremonies by H.R.H. Prince George, K.G.
H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boats at Walton-on- the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea on 25th July. These are the fourth and fifth Life-boats which Prince...
Category: Inaugurations
Letters
Thank you, Kinghorn I am writing to express my thanks to the Kinghorn D class inflatable lifeboat crew and the RNLI who over the years have made it possible for me to sail my sailboard off Kinghorn secure in the knowledge that if I do have a...
Category: Correspondence
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the new Walton and Frinton life-boat, a gift to the Institu- tion...
Category: Advertisement
Launch Into South-Westerly Strong Gale Force 9 Sunday March 22:
Launch into south-westerly strong gale, force 9, Sunday March 22: Three progressive photographs of Eastbourne lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rather Duke of Kent, taken by 16-yearold Matthew Hancock as (left) she launched down her slipway into... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Orlando
Newhaven, Sunday December 13: Soon after midday two calls were received in quick succession. A gale, gusting above force 10, was blowing from south south east; the spring tide was in the first hour of the ebb and seas in the harbour and at...
The Royal Bank of Scotland
We're not asking you to risk your life in Force 9 gales. Or to be on call, day and night. Or even to devote time to training. We are asking for something equally important, though: put pen to paper, below, and take out a Lifeboats...
Category: Advertisement
Haven Knox-Johnston
Haven Knox-Johnston The Pleasure Craft rers To obtain a competitive quotation with wide cover in plain English Fax or Freepost the coupon below We will make a donation j to the RNLI for every I Freepost Haven Knox-Johnston, East India House,...
Category: Advertisement
H.M. Trawler Valesca
APRIL 1ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.25 P.M. the coxswain was told by a private of the 23rd Royal Fusiilers that a vessel about two miles N.E. of Cromer wanted a doctor.
This was confirmed by the coastguards, and at 6.50 P.M....
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Torbay, Devon. — At 6.40 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1952, the police telephoned for the help of the life-boat for a woman, marooned on a rock off Mansands. She had had a heart attack. With the bowman in charge of a scratch crew the...
The S.S. Brilliant
Torbay, Devon.—On the night of the 30th January, 1939, the Berry Head coastguard reported that rockets had been seen about eight miles to the eastward.
A moderate easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy swell. At 8.55 P.M....