LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
North East South East: the Naming of Humber Lifeboat September 10 and Newhaven Lifeboat September 18
THERE WAS MUCH that was unusual in the naming ceremony of the 54' Arun lifeboat City of Bradford IV on Saturday, September 10; but then, there is much that is unusual about Humber, her station. Isolated at the seaward end of a long...
Category: Inaugurations
Adventures of An Emmett
A few days before Jon Jones went on his West Country tour of lifeboat stations with the Dl, Sue Denny, RNLI Press and Public Information Manager was in the same area looking at stations through the eyes of a tourist… rset off bright and...
Category: Articles
Alderman Miss Mary Burton Honorary Life Governor With the Model of Beaumaris Lifeboat Given to Her By the Crew
Alderman Miss Mary Burton, Honorary Life Governor, with the model of Beaumaris lifeboat given to her by the crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four Months of Gales. 174 Launches; 194 Lives Rescued.
THE past winter has been remarkable for a succession of terrible westerly gales. In their frequency and intensity they have been unequalled during the present century. October opened with gales on eight successive days, from the 1st to the...
Category: Services
Inshore Lifeboats
EARLY SUMMER began with several inshore lifeboat ceremonies. On Saturday, May 14, a number of readers of the Birmingham Evening Mail, together with members of Birmingham branch committee, travelled to Exmouth, South Devon, for the handing...
Category: Inaugurations
Barmouth Lifeboat Princess of Wales
Barmouth Lifeboat Princess of Wales. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St Malo
.—At 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March a French cargo steamer, named the St. Malo, and belonging to St. Nazaire, struck the bar when leaving the harbour, and knocked round broad- side to the sea. The Life-boat Michael Henry was sent to her...
The Admiralty Tug St. Oliver
APRIL 13TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
At 9.15 P.M. a message was received from the commander of the Menai Straits yacht patrol that a tug, which had stranded near Puffin Island, was sinking rapidly. A light S.W. breeze was...
Strathearn Glass Ltd Are Making a Lifeboat Glass Paperweight (Left) In a Limited Edition of 150 Engraved on the Side of Each Paperweight Are the Company's Signature T
Slrathearn Glass Ltd are making a lifeboat glass paperweight (left) in a limited edition of 150. Engraved on the side of each paperweight are the company's signature, the engraver's initials and a serial number. Available from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986. She is the first in what the local branch hope will be a succession of beauties, all of whom will help promote local RNLI activities. Karen Bennetts was chosen from many contestants at a special fund raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs