LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loud Hailers & Wireless
Other plans for the immediate future are improved caterpillar tractors and carriages for launching, loud-hailers in a hundred life-boats of the larger types, and watertight wireless sets, so that all life-boats, and not only those, as at...
Category: Articles
Public Servant (Civil Service No 44) at Tower
Public Servant (Civil Service No 44) at Tower This was the first of the Thames E class lifeboats to be named.
The money for the boat was raised by The Lifeboat Fund, which has been raising money for the RNLI for 140 years... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Truganini
Wednesday Catamaran caught out A BOAT SIGHTED in exceptionally heavy seas on the south west part of West Hoyle Bank and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Hoylake lifeboat station at 0845 on Thursday September 20, 1979,...
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries
Floralie (1)
French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
The Four Medallists Aboard the Arun Class Duke Otatholl During a Press Call Before the Governors' Meeting
The four medallists aboard the Arun Class Duke otAtholl during a press call before the Governors' meeting. From left to right: Coxswain David Kennett, Yarmouth; Coxswain Alan Thomas, Tenby; Helmsman David Steenvoorden, Cleethorpes;... - View image in PDF
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Hrh the Duke of Kent Talks to Medallists and Voluntary Workers at a Reception Following the Presentations
HRH The Duke of Kent talks to medallists and voluntary workers at a reception following the presentations. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Prize-Winning Essay
For the second year in succession David Glyn Jones of the Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle School, Penygroes, won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the Lifeboat Service organised by the Institution. The competition -was open to...
Category: Articles
Howth:
Howth: (above) The new lifeboathouse was dedicated on April 14. (I to r) Mr John Guinness, chairman Howth branch, His Excellency President P. J. Hillery, Lord Killanin, vice-president of the Committee of Management, Father B. Kelly, Mrs Joan... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Workington - Tyne 47-028 (ON 1141) Sir John Fisher on 8 June 1992.
Peel -Mersey 12-22 (ON 1181) Ruby Clery on 10 June...
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