LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Part of a procession which included Noah's Ark and Jonah's Whale.. - View image in PDF

LIFE-BOAT day in Greater London was held on 15th May. Among those who helped with the appeal were the Lady Mayoress, who collected at the Mansion House, the Mayoress of West- minster, who collected in Trafalgar Square, and the Mayors of...

Above: HRH The Duke of Kent KG presented the awards for gallantry and those for long and distinguished honorary. - View image in PDF

WE notice with pleasure that growing interest by public men in the concerns of the seamen of the country, which is always one of the signs indicative of the importance of any particular matter be-ginning to be realised by the nation at large...

JANUARY.

Launches 50. Lives Rescued 35.

JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea...

TVS 'Coast to Coast' presenter Khalid Aziz and Claire Roberts show that two hands are better than one when it comes to negotiating a 'nerve tester'. Khalid Aziz had opened a fete at Overton Primary School on June 25 which... - View image in PDF

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.16 on the morning of the 20th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the s.s. Roebuck that M.F. V. 160 of the Royal Army Service Corps was anchored six miles south- south-west of Casquets...

BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...