LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loftus, of Padstow
On the night of the 8th November, the sloop Loftus, of Pad- stow, in entering that port, was compelled to anchor in Hell Bay, exposed to a strong westerly wind and heavy sea. At daylight she was discovered from the shore with a flag of...
Hannah, of Drobak
At day- break on the llth November, the barque Hannah of Drobak, Norway, drifted out of the Humber, during a strong wind from the N.W., accompanied by snow and sleet, the weather having been very stormy during the night. Eventually the...
The Antarctic—Off Devon
The Salcombe life-boat carrying supplies to Hope Cove. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chuckles from the 1930s
Thirty odd years ago it was my duty and my privilege to act as escort to Sir Godfrey Baring, K.B.E., then Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, on his frequent visits to the North West District and, at a later period, to...
Category: Articles
R.N.L.B.I. Headquarters' Staff In the War
IN The Life-Boat for November, 1918, it was indicated that in due course an effort would be made to furnish some details regarding the war services ren- dered by members of the Institution's staff in the Great War. At that time —the...
Category: Articles
Below Left - Committee Members of Dartford
Below left - committee members of Dartford and district branch dress up and rattle collecting buckets at the Dartford Show. The colourful bunch managed to raise £ 114 for lifeboat funds on the day.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover of H.R.H.
the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, is from a photograph by Mr. Cecil Beaton, of Kensington, and is reproduced by his very kind per- mission..
Category: Articles
Five Years of War
In the five years since war was declared on 3rd. September, 1939, our lifeboats have put out to the help of ships and aeroplanes 3,385 times and have rescued 5,777 lives. That is an average of 22 lives every week. It is more lives rescued in...
Category: Articles
Dinner to the Ramsgate Life-Boat Men
(From Pullen's Kent Argus, 1st Dec., 1888.) THE triennial dinner to Ramsgate Lifeboat men, the expenses of which are defrayed by the interest of 200Z. left by the late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., took place on the 29th November, at...
Category: Articles
The "Suevic."
The White Star liner Suevic has been sold to a Norwegian firm, and is to be converted into a floating whale-oil factory. It was from this 12,000-ton liner that Life-boats rescued 456 lives twenty-two years ago. On the night of 17th March,...
Category: Articles