LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Here and There
Bradford and District branch has presented former Lord Mayor, Councillor Tom Hall, with a leather-bound book containing the names of the thousands of people who have contributed to his appeal for funds to cover the cost of a new lifeboat at...
Category: Articles
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Tenby -- West Division Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, has one of the longest slipways in the country, its 360ft extending from the boathouse off Castle Hill into deep water. The...
Category: Articles
A Gift from the Film Industry
THE Federation of British Industries has sent to the Institution a cheque for £817 2s. 10d., being half the net proceeds of the Gala Presentation of British films on 5th November of last year, which was arranged for the benefit of the...
Category: Donations
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
SWANSEA —On the 4th May, 1872, the Life-boat Wolverhampton, stationed at the Mumbles, proceeded to the assistance of the ketch Jupiter, of Hamburg, which had gone ashore near the harbour during a strong gale from the W. Some of the crew of...
Category: Services
Newquay - a Vast Improvement
Newquay - a vast improvement on the concrete garage…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lord Templewood's Tribute
At the funeral service held in Cromer Parish Church on the 17th of June more than 1,400 people crowded into the church, and many hundreds more stood on the pavements outside. The life-boat coxswains of Sheringham, Wells, Caister and...
Category: Obituaries
Mr P Denham Christie Chairman
Mr P. Denham Christie, chairman of the Boat Committee, on behalf of the Institution receives from HRH The Duke of Edinburgh a Design Council Award certificate for the Arun class lifeboat. Facsimiles of the certificate have been sent to each... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ship on Fire
THE telephone rings long and loud ; time 5.25 A.M., 22nd March, 1937. I hasten to answer it and am informed by the coastguard that Seaforth Radio has given them a message that the s.s.
Marie Moller was on fire ten miles...
Category: Services
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
Noddy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.30 on the night of the 6th of September, 1955, the police rang up to say that a woman had reported that the motor launch Noddy, which had been out all day with her son and three friends on board, had not returned....