LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Celestina
At 7.45 P.M. on the 1st October the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was called out by flares and rockets which had been seen in a north- easterly direction. About two miles from the east Margate buoy they found the schooner Celestina, of...
Touring Rnli Depot and Headquarters at Poole on October 7 Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Is Shown the Rigging Loft (Above Left) By Joe Salmon and Watches Len Wlodek At
Touring RNLI depot and headquarters at Poole on October 7, HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is shown the rigging loft (above left) by Joe Salmon and watches Len Wlodek at work on a coir how fender. He inspected a propeller... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 14th of March, 1865, His Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, K.T., P.O., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
Incentive
MFV ashore RAMSEY COASTGUARD, Isle of Man, informed the honorary secretary of Port Erin lifeboat station at 0616 on Saturday, June 17 that the 70ft motor fishing vessel Incentive on passagefrom Whitehaven to Kilkeel with a crew of six aboard...
People and Places
Air Vice Marshal John Tetley, chairman of the RNLI's search and rescue committee, together with other members of the committee drew the winning tickets of the 73rd lifeboat lottery at Poole on 30 April 1996.
Supervising...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Listen very carefully. . . as Rene draws the lotteryGorden Kaye who stars as Rene in television's 'Allo 'Allo, drew the winning tickets of the 74th lifeboat lottery at Poole on 31 July 1996.
Brian Miles, RNLI...
Category: Articles
Letters
The Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, Life-boat House, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I Dear Sir, Your films entitled "Ready for Service", "From Baltimore to Littlehampton" and "The Ben Barvas"...
Category: Correspondence
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1934, to 31st January, 1935
1st November, 1934, to 31st January, 1935.
Greater London.
CHELSEA.—Annual meeting on 29th January, General Sir Walter Braithwaite, G.C.B., Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea! patron of the branch,...
Category: Branches
MISSION: accomplished
Rad Hart-George and Nick Pleydell-Bouverie's journey began with an epic vision: to cycle the entire British coastline, visiting every lifeboat station along the way and raising money to help save lives at sea. And this Summer, they...
Category: Articles
The Icelandic Steam-Trawler Baldur
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 20th of July, 1948, the Portpatrick Radio Station telephoned that the Icelandic steam- trawler Baldur, on passage from Fleet- wood to Iceland, was approaching Campbeltown and...