LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service In 1937
DURING 1937 the Institution gave rewards for the rescue from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland of 524 lives. It is the largest number rescued for nine years. Of those lives 439 were rescued by life- boats and 85 by...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Glendenning
JANUARY 19TH. - BLYTH, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At about 11 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the rocks close to the east pier.
A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing, with very heavy seas. The motor life-boat...
The Institution Mourns
A GREAT loss has, within the last few weeks, fallen on the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the Life-boat Cause has been deprived of a strong supporter and constant friend by the death of ALGERNON GEORGE PERCY, Sixth Duke of...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Vikvall
The s.s. Vikvall, of Oskaishamn, Sweden, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, about'one mile S.E. of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy, on 24th December, while bound, in ballast, to Hartlepool. The weather was misty, and a strong westerly...
The Lily
Humber, Yorkshire.—Just before noon on the 31st May a small fishing boat, The Lily, of Grimsby, drifted ashore inside Spurn Point. She was in no immediate danger. A moderate N.N.W.
breeze was blowing, with a slight...
Cowes Base - the Allen Centre
Miss Heather ('Mickie') Allen with the carved shield presented to her on behalf of Cowes Base by boat builder Steve Simmonds at the opening of The Allen Centre.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ashley
MARCH 9TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.10 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities that a steamer was in need of help to the north of the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor life...
A Challenge to Branches. The Record of the Poole and Bournemouth Committee
The Record of the Poole and Bournemouth Committee.
IN the article in the last issue of The Lifeboat on the Life-boat Station at : Appledore, which celebrated its centenary last summer, was given the re-markable record of...
Category: Branches
Tilbury Tubbies' (With One 'Tubby' Sitting In the Tub) of Tilbury Construction Ltd Convey Island
'Tilbury Tubbies' (with one 'Tubby' sitting in the tub), of Tilbury Construction Ltd, Convey Island, raised £157.50 for the lifeboat service in a charily bath pull along Southend sea front.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Navy's Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
ON 8th February, 1940, the Institution received the following letter from Sir Archibald Carter, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty: " I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that they...
Category: Correspondence