LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Busy Month at Port Talbot
September was a busy month for Port Talbot lifeboat station - with the naming the station's new D class lifeboat and a Royal visit by RNLI President HRH the Duke of Kent KG taking place in just over a week of each other.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1948
Yeisons Time of rescued from 1948. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 2. 3.20 p.m. S.S. Silvia Onorata, of Naples. Walmer life-boat stood by vessel „ 4. 2.50 p.m. / and rescued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 80 ,, 4. 7.40 a.m....
Category: Services
(Left) Launching at New Quay In 1946
ILeftl Launching at New Quay in 1946 This 35ft Liverpool class lifeboat was built at a cost of £961 and named William Cantrell Ashley, one of five lifeboats to be provided out a legacy of Charles Can Ashley, of Mentone, in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
White Heather II and Welcome Home
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...
Lifeboat Services
Three saved — • , — --. -—— from grounded yacht in rojjgh conditions The three crew members aboard St Bees' Atlantic earned a letter of thanks from Michael Vlasto the RNLI's Chief .of Operations following a difficult service to...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SCPPOBTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY OONTHIBUTIOjra.
t — His GBACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUHBERLAKD, P.O.
Chairman — THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., r.p.
JSlfrtiarg — RICHARD Luwis, of the Inner Temple,...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Crew at Buckingham Palace
H.M. the Queen invested each of the five members of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat who took part in the rescue from the coaster Hindlea on the 27th October, 1959, with the silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea at Bucking- ham...
Category: Medals
Lifeboat Classified
LIFEBOAT FOR SALE ON662 RNLB Ernest Dresden Self righting (Ruble) class Stations: Courtan 1917-1925 Port Isaac 1927-1933 Relief Fleet Present condition: Empty hull Rounded end boxes in place Cabin top Two holes cut in hull to remove engines...
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Strong to save
Grace Darling was a woman of courage and determination, and it was those same characteristics – now woven into the fabric of the RNLI – that encouraged Lena Howells to become the first female member of Angle Lifeboat Station in 2007, at the...
Category: Articles
Runa (1)
Port Erin, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1951, the Director of the Marine Bio- logical Station sent a message to the Port Erin life-boat authorities. Two life-boatmen had reported that the Station's...