LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barge Sunk In the Thames Estuary. Silver Medal Service By Margate
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to March 31st, 1953 - 78,157 Barge Sunk in the Thames Estuary Silver Medal Service by...
Category: Services
Carol Sandra and Northwind III
Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...
A New Type of Life-Boat
A NEW type of life-boat, known as the Oakley type, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
Category: Articles
Mr John G Francis of Petts Wood Orpington Kent Was at RNLI Headquarters London on 15Th May 1969 Presented With a Lifeboatman Statuette for His Voluntary Publ
Mr. John G. Francis, of Petts Wood, Orpington, Kent, was at R.N.L.I. Headquarters, London, on 15th May, 1969, presented with a lifeboatman statuette for his voluntary public relations work for the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society which he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In May a Delegation from the RNLI Visited Malmo Sweden for An International Conference of Voluntary Life-Boat Organisations Organised By the Swedish Life-Boat Services
In May a delegation from the R.N.L.I, visited Malmo, Sweden, for an International Conference of voluntary life-boat organisations organised by the Swedish Life-boat Service. During her voyage from Dover to the conference, the 52-foot Arun... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Paulina
Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.41 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the yacht Paulina needed help five miles south of Portland Bill.
The life-boat Lloyd's, on...
Breadwinner
Dover, Kent.—At 12.43 in the morn- ing, on the 6th of April, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the S.S. Shepperton Ferry had wirelessed that a fishing vessel had broken down two and a quarter miles south-east of the South Goodwin...
An Aeroplane (90)
JUNE 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.25 A.M. the coastguard reported that a British bomber was believed to be down several miles to the eastward, and the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at this station, was...
Four Successful Efforts By the Guild. Glasgow Ball and Whist Drive, Belfast Ball, Exeter Theatricals
THE five outstanding efforts made by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild last winter were the Second Annual Life-boat Matinee organised by the Central London Women's Committee last December, of which an account appeared in the last number of...
Category: Articles
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On the 25th February there was an urgent call from Inishere, about nine miles away, for a doctor. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and as the motor life-boat William Evans was the only boat which could make the trip, she...