LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left) Jon Jones.
while (left) Jon Jones. The Lifeboats Editorial Assistant dispenses ballooons between stints on the Information and Storm Force desks. Jon took a lot of the pictures on this page too, but he doesn't get a 'credit' as he works for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1903
Jan. 8.—Voted the thanks of the Insti- tution, inscribed on vellum and framed, together with the sum of 21. each, to JAMES HEARNE and three other boatmen for gallantly putting off in a boat and rescuing the crew of four persons from the...
Category: Articles
Yarmouth Isle of Wight 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Joy and John Wade Returning to Station on Saturday March 29 She Had Launched to Go to the Help of a Nonvegian Cargo Vessel Germa Geisha In Diffic
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 52ft Arun lifeboat Joy and John Wade returning to station on Saturday March 29. She had launched to go to the help of a Nonvegian cargo vessel Germa Geisha in difficulties about nine miles south east of St... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harvest Home
CABOTOAN.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 9th February, the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Glare was launched during a fresh gale from the N.N.E. to N., squally weather and a heavy sea, and rescued the crew, consisting of four men from the schooner...
Olivia Maersk
Barrow, Lancashire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 17th December, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary a local shipping agent had informed him that a member of the crew of the tanker Olivia Maersk of Copenhagen had fallen down a...
Trip back in time
The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Collection is
housed at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent.
Among the exhibits in the RNLI display are the St Paul, an 1897 unrestored Norfolk and Suffolk-type lifeboat; the 1909-built...
Category: Articles
Tijl Uilenspiegel (2)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 17th January, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Decided to forward to the South Holland Life-boat Society a message expressing regret and sympathy in connexion with the loss of the...
Category: Committee
A Life-Boat Diary
"Ship" Ha'pennies for Life-boats A LARGE tin containing a thousand ha'pennies, all with the "ship" design on one side, has been given by Mr.
Henry Broom and his daughter Betty, of Bedford,...
Category: Articles
Lieut.-Col. H. W. Madoc, Isle of Man
LiEUT.-CoL. HENRY WILLIAM MADOC, C.B.E., M.V.O., who died on 7th January at the age of sixty-eight, was for twenty-three years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Douglas, Isle of Man. It was only in August of last year that...
Category: Obituaries