LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Tenby Harbour
The Porthdinllaen and Barmouth life-boats on the sand alongside the quay. On the other side of the quay is the Tenby life-boathouse and slipway.
From photographs by Mr, A. R. Hughes, a member of the crew of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Days In 1936
DURING 1936 life-boat flag days were held by 766 of the 1,071 branches of the Institution; nine fewer than in 1935. The amount collected on these days was £42,715, which was £375 less than in 1935. The number of people who...
Category: Articles
Finance In 1942: Income.
Each year of the war the Institution's income has been higher than ever before. Last year it was £495,775- The money that, for the moment, the Institution is able to put by will be spent, when the war is over, on building the boats...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1950
THE Life-boat Service was on the air a number of times in 1950, both in broadcasts and in television.
In the spring the B.R.C. gave, in the European Service, a series of six broad- casts, in English and seven or eight other...
Category: Articles
Energetic £300K
Scottish and Southern Energy has committed to donating £100,000 a year to the RNLI for the next 3 years.
The money will be spent on crew training at Aldeburgh, Harwich, Lowestoft and Southwold lifeboat stations....
Category: Articles
Struggling in a rip
BROADSTAIRS | 6 SEPTEMBER
Four girls were rescued at a busy Kent beach after they were spotted struggling against a rip current. RN Ll Lifeguard Alex Baxter was patrolling the water's edge at Broadstairs, when he...
Category: Articles
In Memoriam. Admiral John Ross Ward
BY the death, which took place on the- 23rd June last, of the late Admiral WARD „ in his 77th year, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION has lost a good friend and a devoted officer. From the time he joined the Committee in February 1852...
Category: Obituaries
At 1658 on February 11 1973 Dungeness Lifeboat Mabel E Holland Launched on Service to Merc Texco In a 70 Knot Wind
At 1658 on February 11, 1973, Dungeness lifeboat, Mabel E. - View image in PDF
Holland, launched on service to Merc Texco in a 70 knot wind.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Guildhall Square Portsmouth
In Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, on Saturday April 25 the then Lord Mayor of the City of Portsmouth, Councillor Miss M. W. Sutcliffe, presented to Sir Alec Rose, Freeman of the City of Portsmouth and president of Portsmouth (Langstone... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. E. Hayward
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 20th of October, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. E. Hayward, of Liverpool, was in difficulty fifteen miles south- west of Strumble Head. At 5.45 the life-boat White Star...