LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twelve Days of Gales at Aberdeen. Award of the Silver Medal
Award of the Silver Medal.
DURING the twelve days from the 21st January to the 1st February. 1937 the worst gales within living memory blew at Aberdeen, and the south break- water of the harbour was washed...
Category: Services
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 1.50 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1965, the police at Portmadoc told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy in difficulties at Portmadoc estuary was being swept out to sea on the ebb tide. The coastguard...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Swimming in style
The evolution of the humble swimsuit tells an interesting story of wider social conventions …
Daft costumes are the order of the day when it comes to a festive fundraising dip for charity but,...
Category: Articles
Night Launch for Tynesider Tynemouth's 46' 9" Watson Lifeboat Photograph By Courtesy of Newcastle Journal
Night launch for Tynesider, Tynemouth's 46' 9" Watson lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Newcastle Journal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hartlepool Crew Fire Line-Throwing Pistol
Hartlepool Crew Fire Line-Throwing Pistol. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aberystwyth's 17Ft 6in C Class Lifeboat
Aberystwyth's 17Ft 6In C Class Lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig 7: Medal of 1902 Obverse
Fig 7: Medal Of 1902 Obverse. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meetings 1982
The 168th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held in what has become its traditional venue - the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank - on the morning of Tuesday 19 May, 1992. The weather, however, was far from the traditional...
Category: Meetings
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Injured men A HANG GLIDER crashed on the rocks of Beachy Head and the pilot badly injured was reported to Eastbourne lifeboat station by Fairlight Coastguard at 1524.on April 23. Eight minutes later the D class ILB was launched and, crewed...