LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Calshot (Above): Every Five Months Or So 40001 Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde Is Slipped on a Sunday Mid-Day Tide to Be Cleaned Below the Waterline
Calshot (above): Every five months or so 40.001, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, is slipped on a Sunday mid-day tide to be cleaned below the waterline. Crew and helpers rally round and she comes out at about 0900 and is back again... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Message from the Duke of Kent
At the annual meeting, held on loth. July, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, read a message from H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institution, in which His Royal Highness said: "I want to convey my...
Category: Articles
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
Notes of the Quarter
Last year the Institution had a deficit of nearly £124,000, and the figures for revenue and expenditure at the end of the first six months of the present year indicate that in 1967 there is every likelihood of an even larger deficit. At...
Category: Articles
The Sunderland Life-Boat Platform. By A. W. Lewis, The Consulting Engineer of the Institution
Ix common with Their Majesties the King and Queen, and other members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught has always been a warm sympathiser with the work of the Institution, and, in the midst of many national duties, he has...
Category: Articles
Looking at Lifeboats
Looking at lifeboats...
the WAVENEY class The first in a series of profiles of lifeboat classes The Waveney was the first of the RNLI's classes of 'fast lifeboat' and originated as a design operated by the US...
Category: Articles
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Whitby: 1235 on Tuesday March 19, 1985. A party of 27 school children with three teachers were reported by a member of the public to be cut off by the tide at Jump Down Bight, 250 yards east of Whitby. Both the relief 44ft Waveney class...
St.Helier: (Right) the Crew of the 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Thomas James King for the Service on September 3 1983 to the French Yacht
St Helier: (right) The crew of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Thomas James King for the service on September 3, 1983, to the French yacht Cythara: (I to r) Crew Members William Hibbs and John Gray, Coxswain Michael Berry, who was awarded a bar to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue By Breeches Buoy from a Trawler
At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.
Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...
Category: Inaugurations