LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duke of Montrose
THE DUKE OF MONTROSE has been com- pelled by ill-health to give up the work which, for many years, he has done for the Life-boat Service, as a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution and its treasurer, and as chairman of...
Category: Committee
The Keel Boat Just Reward
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 6th December a motor fishing coble and two keel boats were at sea. A strong W.N.W. gale sprang up, bringing a rough sea, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 8.45 A.M. in case...
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Category: Articles
The Institution Takes the Opportunity of Putting on Displays of Its Work In the Barbican Centre During the Event.
The Institution takes the opportunity of putting on displays of its work in the Barbican Centre during the event.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The First Steam Life-Boat
THE recent notices in the press, both written and pictorial, of the latest production of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—" the first steam Lifeboat "—have been so full, that we can quite imagine some of the Society's...
Category: Articles
The Winters of Newhaven
WHEN Second Coxswain Stanley Winter retired from the service in 1954 a family record of 100 years' association with the Newhaven life-boat was inter- rupted. In 1854 Second Coxswain Winter's grandfather became a member of the crew...
Category: Articles
The Coningbeg Lightvessel (1)
SICK MAN At 12.20 p.m. on nth February, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick man on the Coningbeg Lightvessel needed to be taken ashore. No other suitable boat being available the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont proceeded to...
Sir George Shee
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 101 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 86 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 23rd, 1931 - 62,610 Sir George Shee.
His Majesty the...
Category: Articles
Disasters of Sixty and Fifty Years Ago. The Recollections of Eye-Witnesses
SIXTY years ago last September, and fifty years ago this December, life- boats were capsized and lives were lost.
Sixty years ago it was the life-boat at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, which capsized.
Her second...
Category: Articles