LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun 1050: Jun 7, 24, 28 and Jul 21 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: June 8, 15 and Jul 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 22, 29, Jul 4, 13, 14, 27 and 31 Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Atlantic 75: Jun 15...
Category: Services
A Touch Of Brass Can Lead To So Much More
A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...
Category: Articles
Three and a Half Years of War.
In three and a half years of war our life-boats have rescued 5100 lives, and our life-boatmen have won 177 medals for gallantry. Twenty-eight lives have been rescued every week since the war began..
Category: Articles
From the Rocks
i members of ard cliff rescue urn Torbay and I were I in the rescue.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Welcome for the Duke from the Crowds As He Walked Up to the Exhibition Site With the Lord Mayor of Plymouth Councillor FJohnson (Right) and Captain Nigel Dixon
A welcome for the Duke from the crowds as he walked up to the exhibition site with the Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor F.Johnson (right) and Captain Nigel Dixon, Director RNLI. . . .
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Category: Photographs
Opening of the New Headquarters: the President Hrh the Duke of Kent With (I to R) the Director Captain Nigel Dixon and the Chairman Major-General Ralph Farrant
Opening of the new headquarters: The President, HRH The Duke of Kent, with (I. to r.) the Director, Captain Nigel Dixon, and the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant.
photograph by courtesy of Bournemouth News and Picture... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John and Naomi Beattie the Last of Aberystwyth's Five Pulling and Sailing Lifeboats on Her Way Along the Town Front Drawn By Willing Helpers She Was on Station Fr
John and Naomi Beattie, the last of Aberystwyth's five pulling and sailing lifeboats, on her way along the town front, drawn by willing helpers. She was on station from 1906 to 1932.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Seilestier
JANUARY 9TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.30 A.M. a message came from the Hoylake coastguard asking that the life-boat should go to an aeroplane reported down off Formby Point, and at 8.40 the Lytham -...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th Oct 1871 THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair. j Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous j Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees. I Also the Report of...
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Longest Winter Service
A CASE of rum has once again been awarded by the Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited for the longest continuous service by a life-boat during the winter months of 1954-55. The rum has been presented to the crew of the...
Category: Awards