LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Trip back in time
The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Collection is
housed at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent.
Among the exhibits in the RNLI display are the St Paul, an 1897 unrestored Norfolk and Suffolk-type lifeboat; the 1909-built...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
At 4.12 a.m. on 24th January, 1972, the Flamborough coastguard told Mr. Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, Bridllngton, that the m.f.v. My Susanne was sending out radio messages requesting life-boat assistance, as her engine was broken...
Category: Services
Lady Jane and Fury
Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.4 p.m. on 25th September, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that the motor yacht Lady Jane had broken down one mile east of the pier and was signalling for help. The lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis proceeded at 1.14...
Top Box?
A collection box filled by patrons and staff of The Masons Arms pub in Cilgerran, Wales has been dubbed 'top box' by Cardigan branch - every three to four weeks the box secretary is on standby for a call to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 23rd of March, 1954, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Princess Royal pre- sented...
Category: Meetings
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Service In 1937
DURING 1937 the Institution gave rewards for the rescue from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland of 524 lives. It is the largest number rescued for nine years. Of those lives 439 were rescued by life- boats and 85 by...
Category: Articles
Fendyke (1)
Knockdown A COASTER, Fendyke, in trouble off Carnoustie a few miles north of the entrance to the River Tay was reported to the honorary secretary (operations)of Broughty Ferry lifeboat station, who is also the harbour master, by HM...
Lady Francis
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
While the life-boat Grace Darling was escorting the royal barge during the visit of H.M. the Queen and H.R.H.
the Duke of Edinburgh to Holy Island on the 29th of June,...
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Galway Bay. On the 8th of October, 1958, the Minister of State for Gaelic Affairs arrived at Kilronan with other officials in the island mail steamer with the intention of visiting the neighbour- ing islands by motor boat the next day and...