LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Persevere and the Golden Spray
AUGUST 28TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At mid-day, during an air battle over the sea, a German bomber was seen to crash about three miles E.N.E. of the life-boathouse.
The sea was smooth, with a light easterly wind. The motor...
Increasing respect for the water
Respect the Water – the RNLI’s safety campaign – launched throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland this Summer. The campaign was bigger than ever, with thought-provoking adverts in cinemas, on radio, the web and in the press, all in the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1950, January and February, 1951. 135 Lives Rescued
DURING December life-boats went out on service 40 times and rescued 60 lives.
PROPELLER FOULED, ANCHOR CHAIN BROKEN Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society
THE Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society is now in its eighth year. It was formed in 1964 and at the outset had only eight members. From this very small beginning membership has grown over the years. At first progress was slow, but in the last...
Category: Articles
Is This An Answer? the Story of the Lifeboat Memorial Book By the Lord Saltoun, MC
A SOCIETY can be very highly organised without being at all civilised. To send a rocket to a distant planet is a wonderful demonstration of a society's technical and scientific capacity, but tells one nothing about its degree of...
Category: Articles
A Photograph Taken Alter the Service on 28th October, Showing the Damage on the Port Side
A Photograph Taken Alter The Service On 28Th October Showing The Damage on the Port Side. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: the Wide Aisle, With Engines to the Right and Prop Shafts to the Left
Above: The wide aisle, with engines to the right and prop shafts to the left. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Mr. Thos. Baring, M.P., Chairman of the Institution
THIS gentleman, who had been for nearly twenty years the much-respected Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, died at Bournemouth on the 18th Nov., after a lingering illness, extending over two years. He was in the 74th year of Ms...
Category: Obituaries
John HarrisonChairman of the Shoreham Appeal Committee Holds the Cheque for £7000 Presented to the Appeal By the 3Rd Battalion the Queens Regiment at A
John Harrison,chairman of the Shoreham appeal committee, holds the cheque for £7,000 presented to the appeal by the 3rd Battalion The Queens Regiment at a ceremony held at the station's boathouse. (Photo Beckett... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Emily and Eva and The Three Brothers
At 12.45 P.M. on the 18th March two of the fishing-cobles belonging to Robin Hood's Bay, named the Emily and Eva and The Three Brothers, which had gone off earlier in the morning to fish, were in danger. Whilst fishing the wind and sea...