LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search
13061 search results for 'royal family'
List view Card view

Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1921

Date: February 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 275

Time of Lives 1921.

Jan. 2.

„ 18.

n 21.

„ 22.

„ 24.

„ 25.

„ 27.

„ 27.

„ 27.<...

Category: Services

Menacing Goodwins By Arthur Gaunt

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...

Category: Articles

Strength and depth

Date: Winter 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 598 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2011

In the English Channel, there are breaking swells higher than houses. Shrieking winds whip up a storm of snow, sleet and spray. Amidst it all, a huge cargo ship named Bonita, with 36 people onboard, has rolled onto her side....

Category: Articles

Minehead's First

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

Readers might be interested in this picture of Minehead's first lifeboat, George Leicester.

In my connection with a rural museum, I was asked to print some pictures from glass negatives - among them I found this picture... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Helen Peele's Summer Cruise: 1927

Date: August 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 291

By Captain H. G. Innes, R.N., Inspector of Life-boats for the Western District.

[Each summer the Institution's steamtug, Helen Peele, which is stationed at Padstow, Cornwall, for the purpose of taking the two Padstow...

Category: Articles

Hidden Treasure

Date: Autumn 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 589

Our islands have a great heritage of constructing ocean-going vessels. But their shipbuilding glory days are fading – except where the RNLI is concerned

At the end of the 1800s, the UK was constructing over half of the...

Category: Articles

Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.

February Meeting.

Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...

Category: Services

The King and the Life-Boat Institution

Date: November 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 230

AT a Life-boat demonstration, held at Southampton on Monday, the 3rd August, a loyal message was sent to the King, and the following acknowledg- ment was promptly received : " I am commanded by the King to thank you for your telegram,...

Category: Correspondence

New! Online Magazine

Date: Winter 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 610 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2014

Lifeboat is especially for loyal, regular givers and members like you. But there is also a new online magazine for everyone interested in the RNLI – with content you can’t get in a quarterly print publication, such as videos and recent...

Category: Articles

Castle Ashby Naturals

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

EXCLUSIVE! Special Offer To readers of this magazine The aim of Castle Ashby Naturals is to provide the highest quality natural skincare products based on time tested traditional ingredients.

No animals have suffered in the...

Category: Advertisement