LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fourth International Life-Boat Conference
By Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution.
SINCE the Royal National Life-boat Institution, in its Centenary year of 1924, organized the first International Life-boat Conference ever held, it...
Category: Meetings
Dover Lifeboat
Dover lifeboat station was delighted to receive a cheque for £6,000 from Customs officers from Dover Docks. The money had been raised mostly by holiday makers giving their spare foreign currency on returning to England. The Customs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on a small rock islet...
Model new crew member
Aberdovey’s newest crew member, Steve Bowen (18), has been following the family’s RNLI tradition since he was 2 years old.
Steve was the star of a UK-wide RNLI advertising campaign in 1992. His father Dave, who was on the...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (26)
MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre...
May
Launches 26 Lives rescued 25 The War ended on the last minute of the 8th of May
MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point,...
Category: Services
Mrs Barbara Wentworth Central London Women's Committee Has Given the Mirror Dinghy She Won at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball Last December to Samuel Lithgow Bo
Mrs Barbara Wentworth, Central London Women's Committee, has given the Mirror dinghy she won at the Lifeboat and Mermaid ball last December to Samuel Lithgow Boys'" Club. At a handing over ceremony in Regents Park last May, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature: Lifeboating - An Education
Many colleges have their own sports teams, but how many can claim to have their own lifeboat crew? At Atlantic College, a crew made up of teachers and students is on call, ready to swap the classrooms and quarters at St Donat's Castle...
Category: Articles
Charing Cross, and The Normandy 2
NOVEMBER 28TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the motor life-boat J. W. Archer was out on exercise.
She saw the tug Charing Cross, with two empty hoppers in tow, enter the Tees, and the...
Deck Level Exchange
At first glance the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the RNLI appear poles apart. But the world's largest coastguard service and the RNLI have united to set up an exchange programme to help both services improve their ability to save...
Category: Articles