LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crew of the Porthdinllaen Lifeboat In the 1950S.
When some of these award winners joined the RNLI, crews wore oilskins, sou'westers and kapok lifejackets, like those worn by the crew of the Porthdinllaen lifeboat in the 1950s. The Waveney class lifeboat Ipp22~23) was yet to be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ramsey Fishing Smack Majestic
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 5.12 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the Ramsey fishing smack Majestic had not returned from the fishing grounds. A southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. A further message was...
The Duchess of Sutherland Opening the London Bazaar
(Behind her, left to right, are : Mist Florence Eyre, Lady Baring and the Viscountess Bertie of Thame (Chairman of the London Women's Committee).). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Branches of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, With Names of the Contributors
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Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Services
The First of the Rnli's Mersey Class Lifeboats
The first of the RNLI's Mersey class lifeboats officially to be named makes her way across the beach at Bridlington with the official guests aboard following the naming ceremony performed by the President of the Ladies Lifeboat Guild... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.
SIR GODFREY BARING, who retired from the Committee of Management in 1956 after having served on the Committee for forty-five years and having been the Committee's Chairman for thirty-three years, died on the 24th of November, 1957. Sir...
Category: Obituaries
The Help of Mayors and Mayoresses. A Record?
St. Albans Answers the Challenge.
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave the Southport Branch's record of mayoral help. The Mayor, during his term of office, serves as a member of the Branch Committee, while the...
Category: Articles
The Wreck of the Trawler "White Rose" Near Aberdeen
The Wreck of the Trawler "White Rose" Near Aberdeen. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Presentation of French Medals at Torbay and Longhope
THE two silver and six bronze medals, with diplomas, which were awarded to Coxswain William Mogridge, of Torbay, and his crew by the French Government for the rescue of the skipper of the trawler Satanicle, on 30th December, 1935, were...
Category: Medals