LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Waking Branch
Waking branch were very fortunate in having TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh (3rd r) as their very entertaining and interesting guest speaker at a wine and dine evening in March. The evening, which raised £1,000, was organised by Mrs Patsy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck of the "Indian Chief," 5th January, 1881. The Aldeburgh Life-Boat's Journey of 120 Miles.
IT is just fifty years since the barque Indian Chief, outward bound from Middlesbrough to Yokohama, was wrecked on the Long Sand, off the mouth of the Thames, and the twelve survivors of her crew of twenty-nine men were rescued by the...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Notes of the Quarter
In her presidential address at the Institution's annual general meeting on 21st March, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, called attention to the remark- able changes which have taken place during her presidency.
It was...
Category: Articles
Letters
'There is another type of courage...
...the stoic acceptance of wives, husbands, partners and parents who never know whether their loved ones will return from a shout.'Another special kind of courage The courage of...
Category: Correspondence
The Fundraisers
Flags out for the lifeboats From Pinner to Plumstead, Romford to Richmond, Potters Bar to Petts Wood, members of almost 100 London branches were knocking on doors between 9 and 16 March during the RNLI's London lifeboat...
Category: Articles
The 37Ft 6In Rother Lifeboat Rnlb Shoreline Awaits Her Re-Dedication As Principal Guests Arrive at Arbroath Harbour Photograph By Courtesy of Iain Wight
The 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline awaits her re-dedication as principal guests arrive at Arbroath Harbour. photograph by courtesy of Iain Wight. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...
Category: Services
The Converted Motor Fishing Vessel Kathmar
Engine broken down RED FLARES fired by a vessel about a mile south of Boddin Point, four miles south of the lifeboat station, were reported to the honorary secretary of Montrose by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Tuesday March 28.
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...
Category: Services