LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Captured Boats
The last that the Institution heard of its life-boats in Jersey and Guernsey before the Germans captured the Channel Islands was on June 29th. 1940. They had been ordered to sail for Cowes, but that afternoon Jersey telephoned that the...
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On July 6 Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli Visited Three Scottish Lifeboat Stations: Invergordon and Macduff Both Established In 1974 and Buckle Establishe
On July 6 HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, visited three Scottish lifeboat stations: Invergordon and Macduff, both established in 1974, and Buckle, established in I860. At each the Duke inspected the lifeboat and met lifeboatmen,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Line Up for the International Life-Boat Conference: Life-Boats of the R.N.L.I. Assembling at East Cowes In May, 1967, Before Setting Out for the 10th International Conference in Dinard and St. Malo from 5th-9th June
Line up for the International Life-boat Conference: life-boats of the R.N.L.I, assembling at East Cowes in May, 1967, before setting out for the 10th international conference in Dinard and St. Malo from 5th-9th June. Shown (from left to... - View image in PDF
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Ex-Coxswain Robert Smith, of Tynemouth
BY the death of ex-Coxswain Kobert Smith of Tynemouth, on 30th October last, in his eightieth year, one of the greatest of the Institution's Coxswains has passed away. No man more gallantly and more honourably carried on the great...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Amiral Aube (1)
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND MARGATE.
—A message was received at Walton-onthe- Naze by telephone from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, on the morning of the 14th January, stating that a steamer was flying signals of distress 2J miles S,E...
The Hardchine Hull (Right) Running at a Displacement Near to That of the Final Boat,
s. The hardchine hull (right) running at a displacement near to that of the final boat. - View image in PDF
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The coxswain of the Gorleston lifeboat, Mr William Fleming, 1923
the coxswain of the Gorleston lifeboat, Mr William Fleming, 1923. - View image in PDF
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The Last Launch of the Adrianne De Bruine at Ameland
The last launch of the Adrianne de Bruine at Ameland. - View image in PDF
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Selection of a New Life-Boat
THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...
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Prince of Life-Boats
As briefly reported in the July edition of THE LIFE-BOAT, The Duke of Windsor, who died on 28th May, 1972, was for many years actively associated with the R.N.L.I., especially between 1919 and 1936 when he served as President of the...
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