LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of French Life-Boats
WE have much pleasure in extracting from the French Life-boat Journal the following interesting account of services performed by the life-boats of the " Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages," during the first quarter of the...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Stand at Irish Shipping Exhibition
(see page 337). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harwich
Shortly after four in the morning of 8th December information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares. Fifteen minutes later the Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. A fresh S.W. by W....
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
From ist April to 30th June, 1964, inshore rescue boats were launched on service 76 times. On nine occasions—described in chronological order below—they were able to rescue people in difficulties.
Walmer, Kent. At 4.14...
Category: Services
Shooting the Action
The RNLI/Kodak Photography Competition prompted an overwhelming response. After much deliberation the judges chose this outstanding photograph by Hilary Watkins, a senior NHS Manager, as the overall winner.
Hilary's...
Category: Articles
Generous Scottish Ladies. Gifts and Legacies of £92,392 In Eleven Years
A REMARKABLE feature of life-boat appeals during recent years has been the number of gifts for building motor life-boats for the Scottish coast received from ladies in Scotland. Since the beginning of 1928 nine such gifts have been received,...
Category: Donations
H.R.H. The Duchess of York at Arbroath
Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-boat.
ON 31st August, H.R.H. The Duchess of York named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Arbroath (Angus).
This Life-boat, which has replaced a Pulling and...
Category: Inaugurations
At the Presentation of the PR Awards:
At the presentation of the PR awards: (I to r) Dugal Nisbet-Smith, John Bird, Raymond Baxter, Mallory Maltby, Brian Green and Helen Fraser of Fontana.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fine Service at Flamborough
A fine service was carried out by the Flamborough No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, Forester, on April 28th, when she rescued the crew of sixteen of the Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa. In the early hours of the morning, in a dense fog,...
Category: Services