LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Scout: Hm the Queen Names the New Hartlepool 44' Waveney Lifeboat
WHFN HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH named Hartlepool's new 44' Waveney lifeboat on Thursday, July 14, it was an historic moment for both the RNLI and the Scout Association; for the RNLI it was the first time a reigning monarch had ever...
Category: Inaugurations
(below) a bouquet for Lady Killanin, who named the lifeboat
(below) a bouquet for Lady Killanin, who named the lifeboat, is presented by Rosemary Quig/ey, daughter of the deputy launching authority; with them is Mr Clayton Love, a vice-president of the RNLI.
photographs by courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
River Tay
NOVEMBER 30TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 1.30 in the morning, a telephone message came from Kyle that a vessel was ashore on the Morven Coast opposite Craignure. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell...
Aberdovey: Lieut-Commander George Cooper Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats Western Division Introduces the Crew to the President Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship I Is Statio
Aberdovey: Lieut-Commander George Cooper, divisional inspector of lifeboats, western division, introduces the crew to the president. Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship I is stationed at Aberdovey; she is one of the ILBs for which the money was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, llth June, 1896.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
KILMORE, co. WEXFORD. — The schooner Antelope of Wexford stranded, during thick but moderate weather on the 6th May, about half a mile east of Bastardstown. Information of the casualty was received from the Coastguard at 3 A.M., and the crew...
Category: Services
Poster Competition
The results of The Birmingham Post's children's poster competition are as follows: seniors (11 to 16 years): 1st—David John Brown, aged 15, of Fabian Crescent, Shirley, Solihull; 2nd—Lyn Bonner, aged 11, of Mayswood Road, Solihull;...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Third Annual Genera) Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, the 27th May, at 4 o'clock p.m., Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Meetings
Douglas Lifeboat's Inflatable X Boat Waits at the Foot of the Cliff for the Second Youth to Be Lowered
Douglas lifeboat's inflatable X boat waits at the foot of the cliff for the second youth to be lowered. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Reed at Cromer
Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, who in 1967 gave the new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed in memory of her late husband, Mr. A.
E. Reed, of Stamford, Lincolnshire (THE LIFE-BOAT, September, 1967),...
Category: Articles