LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Hubert Petit, of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, who is only the third man to win the Institution's highest award for gallantry, its gold medal, since the war. An account of the service for which he...
Category: Articles
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
Category: Articles
The Internal Combustion Petrol Engine Was First Used to Convert Sailing and Pulling Lifeboats to Motor One of the First Purpose designed Motor Lifeboats Was John a Hay a 42Ft Self-Righter Built In 1
The internal combustion petrol engine was first used to convert sailing and pulling lifeboats to motor. One of the first purposedesigned motor lifeboats was John A. Hay. a 42ft self-righter built in 1908 and stationed at Stromness. She was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Special Appeals
SPECIAL APPEALS Just before the AGM at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on May 21 (which will be reported fully in the Autumn issue), Mr Roy Bailhache, Chairman of the Jersey branch, presented a cheque for £100,000—the largest single...
Category: Articles
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 144 station life-boats 102 inshore rescue boats 1 70-foot steel life-boat on operational trials 1 44-foot steel life-boat on evaluation trials at Barry Dock LIVES RESCUED 89,437 from the Institution's foundation in...
Category: Services
The Sailing Ship Maria Asumpta
Three lifeboats search for survivors from wrecked sailing ship Lifeboats from three stations were involved in the search for survivors when the 137-year-old sailing ship Maria Asumpta foundered after running ashore on the rocky North...
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
The Barges Maid of Munster, Asphodel, Adriatic and Vigilant
FOUR SERVICES IN SEVENTEEN HOURS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, a resident of Leigh telephoned that a fishing boat was ashore at Marsh End, off Leigh. A strong south-south-west gale was blowing,...