LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Second Fore and Aft Skin Has Been Laid and the First Strake of the Third Skin Is Fitted Into Place This Third Skin Is Laid on the Opposite Diagonal to the First Skin
The second, fore and aft, skin has been laid, and the first strake of the third skin is fitted into place. This third skin is laid on the opposite diagonal to the first skin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Life-Boat Song
MANY of our friends are often at a loss for a good Life-boat song, to be performed at concerts given on behalf of the Institution. Hence we welcome an excellent song which we have received from Mr. Jacob Davies, entitled, " The...
Category: Songs
Notre Dame de la Mer
On the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the Margate life-boat North Foreland. Civil Service No XI was launched in a rough sea to go to the help of the French trawler Notre Dame de la Mer. off Boulogne, which was being driven inshore...
Fathers and Sons: Richard and Andrew Tollett Both Crew Members of Rye Harbour
Fathers and sons: Richard and Andrew Tollett, both crew members of Rye Harbour D class inflatable lifeboat, are the first Rye father and son to go out on service together since complete families were lost in the lifeboat disaster of 1928.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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fescue from the Johan Cottett, 5 February 1963 Coxsivain Hubert Tetit, guernsey TheNorwegianmerchantship/o/w iCo et( was 14 miles off LesHanois lighthouse, Guernsey, when her skipper radioed for help; his cargo had shifted and his vessel was...
Category: Medals
Princess Marina Duchess of Kent Presenting the Silver Medal to Coxswain J Nicolson of Aith for His Part In the Rescue of the Crew of 12 of the Trawler Juniper on 19th Feb
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, presenting the silver medal to Coxswain J. Nicolson, of Aith, for his part in the rescue of the crew of 12 of the trawler Juniper on 19th February, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Speedy rescue saves diver Helmsman David Fordy and Crew Member Michael Hoyle were both standing at the front door of the Seahouses boathouse when the call came. An exhausted diver was in difficulty in confused seas near a cliff face. He...
From the heart
In 2003 Chantal Carr weighed 20 stone. Just 4 years later she’d lost half her body weight, and went on to attempt to swim the Channel in aid of the RNLI
It took some straight talking from her...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (36)
OCTOBER 2ND. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
A steamer had been bombed and set on fire by a German aeroplane, but the Irish patrol steamer Fort Rannock rescued the crew.- Rewards, £17 0s. 3d..
American Journey By Patrick Howarth
RECENTLY I VISITED the USA in my capacity as secretary of the American/ British Lifeboat Appeal Committee.
I was able to make my journey at no cost to the appeal through the generosity of Transworld Airlines and was...
Category: Articles