LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
ON HER EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, August 4, HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was sent the following telegram by our Chairman, the Duke of Atholl: 'Members of the RNLI Committee of Management, lifeboat crews, voluntary workers and staff thank...
Category: Articles
Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Is Welcomed
HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother is welcomed to Walmer lifeboat station with a bouquet of flowers from local Storm Force members.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
R.N.L.I. Medals for Irb Service
Mr. Robert Stewart and Mr. Andrew Scott of Amble have become the first men ever to be awarded medals for gallantry by the R.N.L.I. for a service carried out in one of the Institution's inshore rescue boats. The service was a combined...
Category: Services
Resolute
On the 8th April the Ketch Resolute of Newcastle-on-Tyne with four men on board stranded while attempt- ing to enter North Sunderland Harbour during a violent N.W. gale. When the vessel struck, a local coble proceeded to her assistance with...
Run to our rescue!
Entering a race or fun run in aid of the RNLI will help our lifesavers go to the rescue and boost your health. But if you’ve never run before or have fallen out of the habit, where do you...
Category: Articles
Midge
On the afternoon of the 12th September the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, went out in the motor boat Midge, with a friend and two members of his staff, to fish. The engine broke down and the boat began...
Bostonian VII
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 12th of August, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen four and a half miles south-east-by-east of Shoreham Harbour. At 9.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and-Phyllis...
A Naval Aeroplane
OCT. 2 0TH. SELSEY, AND SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1.13 A.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...
Miners and the Life-Boat Service
ON the 18th September a very successful procession took place at Ashington, and as a result of it and of a ball which followed, a sum of over £174 was raised for the Institution. Ashington is a min- ing village, and the Day was...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Barque Kaskelot (1)
Three lifeboats stand by sailing barque in severe weather Three lifeboats were launched in winds of up to Force 11 when the Jersey registered sailing barque Kaskelot, with 17 people aboard, reported that her anchor would not hold and that...