LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Aldeburgh. Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-Boat
ON 27th May, H.R.H. the Prince George, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. This is the seventh Motor Life-boat to be named by the Prince.
The Aldeburgh boat is the first of a new type...
Category: Inaugurations
Opposite Top: Phyl Cleare With Her Late Husband Jack at the Naming Ceremony of Phyl Clare In 1990
Opposite top: Phyl Cleare with her late husband Jack at the naming ceremony of Phyl Clare in 1990. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Three fishermen saved with just minutes to spare A;L long service in a severe gale and heavy, broken seas has earned Achill Island's Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic, Brian Patten, the RNLI's Silver Medal. The remainder of the crew will...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
ITS WORK.
HPHE Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts of the United Kingdom: in paying...
Category: Advertisement
Massive mission
When a 180m-long cargo vessel beached on a sandbank on 3 January, some crew members were trapped inside while others prepared to abandon ship. What happened next called on the skill and courage of four lifeboat...
Category: Articles
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Family of five snatched to safety from base of cliff on rising tide A service by Little and Broad Haven's D class on 23 September 1995 to a family stranded at the base of a cliff on a rising tide has led to the award of the...
Books
The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann, published by Collectors' Books at £24.50 ISBN 0 946604 02 9 In late May and early June 1939 the name of a small Flanders port became a household word, a name which even now, almost...
Category: Articles
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.
At 9 a.m. on 8th November, 1965, the Inspector of Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick keeper on the Tusker Rock lighthouse and requested that he be taken off....
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AUGUST 31ST. - BALTIMORE, CO CORK. An explosion had been heard and a flare seen, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £11 16s..
The S.S. Bidassoa
MAY 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.13 P.M. the coastguard passed to the life-boat station a message from the resident naval officer at Penzance, that a vessel with a dangerous list was about four miles N.E. of Pendeen...