LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prizes Galore at the Mermaid Ball
This masterpiece of chocolate confectionery floating on a sea of blue icing and donated by Thorntons, was just one of many prizes in a 'short odds' raffle held during the 1989 Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball which was held at the London... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rescue on the Cornish Cliffs
THE Institution has awarded its Thanks inscribed on Vellum and a monetary reward to Mr. J. Curtis, a fisherman of Polperro, Cornwall, for his gallantry in rescuing a shipwrecked man by climbing down the cliffs to him. in circumstances of...
Category: Awards
The Panamanian-Registered Ship Secil Japan
Lifeboats stand-by stranded cargo vessel in severe weatherThe chairman of the RNLI has written a letter of thanks to the coxswains and crews of the Padstow and St Ives lifeboats following a very difficult operation in storm-force winds.At...
The Danish Cargo Vessel Lone Dania (1)
Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at 2355 on Saturday...
The 1952 Christmas Card In Colour
From the painting "The Southsea Life-boat," by W L. Wyllie, R.A (See page 406).
Category: Drawings
The British Railways Ferry Princess Victoria (3)
On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.
The Sand Boats Wisbech, Lintie and Kinfauns
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1956, a director of the Tay Sand Co., Ltd., telephoned to say that two sand boats were dredging above the Tay Bridge and were now heavily laden.
A...
Brian Miles Director of the Rnli
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above; the Brand New Lifeboat Station
Above; The brand new lifeboat station draws upon Victorian-style architecture in sympathy with the famous Blackpool Tower buittinthe 1390s. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charting Our Course for the Future...
Charting our course for the future... the RNLI is setting out to define its Visions and Values. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs