LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (6)
JULY
Launches 47. Lives rescued 31.
JULY 5TH - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.W. gale was...
Category: Services
None (2)
Walmer, Kent.—13th October, 1938.
Flashes had been reported at sea between South Foreland and Dover Harbour, but nothing could be found to explain them.—Rewards £36 6s. 9d..
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover of H.R.H.
the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, is from a photograph by Mr. Cecil Beaton, of Kensington, and is reproduced by his very kind per- mission..
Category: Articles
Patchwork Blanket
With the aid of her fellow members of the Bexleyheath, Kent, Methodist Sisterhood, Mrs. Phyllis M. Dewey, aged 86, has made a patchwork blanket for the crew of Dover's new 44-foot steel life-boat Faithful Forester..
Category: Donations
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN HAROLD COYDE, of the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent. A member of the crew since 1953, he was second coxswain from October, 1960, to April, 1961, when he was appointed coxswain. In 1964 he was awarded a silver medal for...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Douglas Matthewson
Coxswain Douglas Matthewson presents to HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, during his visit to Arbroath on May 11, the lifeboatmen who man the 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat RNLB Shoreline. photograph by courtesy of D. C. Thomson... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Before and After - the St.Davids' Tyne Class Lifeboat Garside
Before, and after - the St Davids' Tyne class lifeboat Garside makes a splash after being named by HRH The Duke of Kent on 2 June 1989. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Martin Cavaney Photography). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (5)
SEPT. 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A vessel had been reported with a bad list, which was thought to be the result of enemy action, and the life-boat put out in charge of the bowman, as both the coxswain and second coxswain were at sea fishing, but...
Wasini
The importance of teamwork Although the RNLI is entirely independent of government, it couldn't operate without the support of official organisations such as the Coastguard, which coordinates all rescues at sea.
An...
Wasini (1)
The importance of teamwork Although the RNLI is entirely independent of government, it couldn't operate without the support of official organisations such as the Coastguard, which coordinates all rescues at sea.
An...