LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An American Yacht
Yacht owner injured by boom Weymouth South West Division A service to an American yacht by Weymouth's 54ft Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell has led to a letter of thanks to the station's honorary medical adviser Dr Peter Gibbons...
The Flamborough Life-Boat Friendly Forester Going Out on Exercise In a South East Gale and Snow-Storm on 12Th March 1969
The Flamborough life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise in a south east gale and snow-storm on 12th March, 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Change of Title of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
MOST of our readers are already aware that the title of the above Society has been recently altered to that of the " ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—founded in 1824 for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck;" they may not,...
Category: Articles
An Irish Gold Medal.
The second gold medal to be awarded for conspicuous gallantry since the outbreak of war, has been won by Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore, on the north west of Ireland. For the same service the motor mechanic was awarded the silver medal...
Category: Articles
Card Collecting: Some Notes on Charitable People. By a New Life-Boat Worker
I HAVE learnt several things about my fellow men and women which have interested me very much since, some months ago, I undertook always to have one of the Prince of Wales's Life-boat Collecting Cards with me wherever I went. I think...
Category: Donations
Rescue By An Honorary Secretary
ON the afternoon of 1st July, in a southerly gale with a very heavy sea, a small yacht, with its owner on board, ran ashore near Fleetwood, at the entrance to the channel. Councillor C. E. Tatham, Honorary Secretary of the Blackpool Branch...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th June, 1905.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
An Aeroplane (127)
AUGUST 28TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea about 11.30 in the morning, off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, twenty miles away on the other side of Caernarvon Bay, and at 12.36...
An American Thunderjet Fighter
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
An Aeroplane (87)
MAY 22ND. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.43 P .M. a telephone message came from the senior naval officer at Liverpool, asking the lifeboat to go to the help of a British aeroplane in distress, and the motor life-boat M.O.Y.E. was...