LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent's Presidential Address
THE meeting to-day has a twofold purpose; to hear about the work of the Institution during 1946; and to pay our tribute to the gallant self-sacrifice of The Mumbles life-boat crew, for whose families we all have the deepest...
Category: Meetings
Yachts
Ferry horror ppy endingEven experienced sailors can sometimes get caught out by unusual circumstances. Saturday 5 May was a bright, clear day, one of the first weekends this year with ideal weather for a pleasant day's...
As Part of Newquay's Very Full Fund-Raising Programme the Ladies of the Guild Join In the Town's Floral Dance When Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham Visited Cornwall In June He Presented a Joint Statu
As part ofNewquay's very full fund-raising programme the ladies of the guild join in the town's floral dance. When Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham visited Cornwall in June he presented a joint statuette to Michael and Pauline Morris: he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
King George In a Motor Life-Boat
IP a motor boat could speak, the Beaumaris motor Life - boat, which should reach her station shortly after this article is in print, would be able to make a boast which few of her sister boats could equal, and which should prove a source of...
Category: Articles
Special Appeals
SPECIAL APPEALS Just before the AGM at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on May 21 (which will be reported fully in the Autumn issue), Mr Roy Bailhache, Chairman of the Jersey branch, presented a cheque for £100,000—the largest single...
Category: Articles
Boy Peter, Bluebell
Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.10 p.m. on 24th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Boy Peter was ashore on the south side of Proudfoot.
The fishing vessel Bluebell was also...
News from the Branches. 1st August to 31st October, 1935
1st August to 31st October, 1935.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive, with address by the assistant district organizing secretary.
HAYES.—Annual meeting on 31st October. Speaker :...
Category: Branches
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor By Frank Martin
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the patenting of Lionel Lukin's 'unimmergible boat', the first craft ever to be designed specifically for saving human life at sea. Frank Martin, honorary treasurer of the Hythe branch of...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited the RNLI headquarters and depot at Poole on Tuesday morning, October 7, attended by his Private Secretary, Lt-Cdr Richard Buckley, and accompanied by HM Lieutenant for Dorset, Col Sir...
Category: Articles
Children's Collection at Alnmouth
Lady Elizabeth Percy receiving their purses from Miss Darea Milburn and Lord Geoffrey Percy. On the right of Lord Geoffrey Percy is the Duchess of Northumberland. (See page opposite.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs