LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duchess of York on London Life-Boat Day
H.R.H. The Duchess of York visited a number of depots on Lifeboat Day in Greater London, on May 19th.
She is seen with the Mayor and Mayoress at Paddinglon Town Hall. Behind the Mayoress is Mr. George... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Perilous Play
RescUe PeRILoUs PLAY swept along by the powerfully ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s survival depended on the reaction of her local lifeboat crew a powerful ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s Jade Kerrison was playing with a friend at south...
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.
VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...
Category: Advertisement
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PORTH HELLICK, SCILLY ISLES. At about 4 in the afternoon of the 4th June, 1942, a Tiger Moth aeroplane, the engine of which had failed, fell into the sea about fifty yards off the shore at Porth Hellick. The accident was seen by Mr. C....
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1886
Jan. 7.—Voted 61. to six men, for saving the crew, consisting of eight men, of the brigantine Pathfinder, of Digby, N.S., who had taken refuge on Tor Rock, about a mile N.W. of Innia- trahull Light, off the coast of Donegal, their vessel...
Category: Articles
The Yarmouth High and Dry
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat rescued her crew of eleven (See page 167). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
They've done us a flavour!
What could be better after a hard day’s work, whether at sea or on land, than a hot bowl of soup?
This March, New Covent Garden Soup Co launches a new flavour – Chunky Chipotle Chilli Bean and Chorizo – sales of which...
Category: Articles
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Skin diver missing AT 1335 ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1987, Humber Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary at Fiamborough lifeboat station, that a skin diver was missing off Fiamborough Head.
He agreed to an immediate...
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Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...