LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. — On the morning of the 21st December, 1933, the honorary secretary...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1957
Time of Date Launching Station 1957 Jan. 1 23.07 Newcastle 2 04.55 Stronsay „ 3 10.07 New Brighton 3 19.40 Weymouth ..
4 02.00 Tenby 4 21.25 Blyth ,, 6 06.25 Stornoway ..
7 19.45 Arklow 8 02.30 New...
Category: Services
The Last Meeting Between the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli from 1936 and the Lifeboat Service Was at Plymouth Guildhall on July 11 1942 Just Seven Weeks Bef
The last meeting between the Duke of Kent, President of the KNLIfrom 1936, and the lifeboat service was at Plymouth Guildhall on July 11, 1942, just seven weeks before his death in an air accident.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE December number of the Life-boat, recording as it does the happenings in the months of July, August and Septem- ber, invariably has a bulky section devoted to the detailed accounts of services by the life-boats, for it is in the summer...
Category: Articles
The kindness of strangers
Kevin Payne dreamed of starting a new life by the Mediterranean. On 2 July 2007, he left Southampton in his 25m converted trawler Abundance, with friend George, Daisy the dog, Fluffy the cat, and everything he owned onboard. Mairéad...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 102. Lives rescued 193.
April Meeting.
Aberdeen.—During the very bad storms from 21st January to 1st Febru- ary the motor life-boat was launched three times, the pulling and sailing life- boat...
Category: Services
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., at Brixham. Inaugural Ceremony of the "George Shee."
ON 27th July, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, E.G., President of the Institu- tion, attended the Inaugural Ceremony of the Motor Life-boat at Torbay, and named the boat George Shee, after the late Secretary of the Institution.
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Stations of the Isle of Man By Joan Davies
VERY CLOSE TO THE SEA are people of the Isle of Man. Set in the Irish Sea almost equidistant between England and Ireland, with Scotland to the north and Wales to the south, not only is the island itself dependent on sea trade but is lies...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 86. Lives rescued 90., September Meeting.
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of...
Category: Services