LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Why Is a Ship Always a She, and Why Is She Invariably Launched With Ceremony and Usually the Traditional Bottle of Champagne (Arrowed)?
Why is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne (arrowed)?. - View image in PDF
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How Children Regard the R.N.L.I.
IN the course of a year the R.N.L.I. receives hundreds of letters and drawings from children in praise of the life-boat service. Quite a few of the writers send donations to the Institution, and from time to time extracts from their letters...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service and the Fishing Fleets
The Prince of Wales's Tribute and Appeal.
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Grimsby on 19th July for the purpose of visiting the decks and opening a new bridge he made a reference to the close connexion between the...
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The Large Screw Steamer Quantock
WINTERTON.—At the termination of a very heavy snowstorm at about 5 P.M. on the 25th January a light and rockets were shown by a vessel which had stranded on the beach about three-quarters of a mile S. of the light-house. The No. 1 Life-boat...
October Gales. Two Gold Medals Awarded to Moelfre, Anglesey, and Two Silver Medals to St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
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The Standard Bearer of the Life-Boat Service
Mr. W. Hopper, one of the Margate crew which went to Dunkirk in 1940. - View image in PDF
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Some Ways of Raising Money
Mike Smith, a Tunbridge Wells teacher and a member of the Long Distance Walkers Association, 'pushed out the boat' for the RNLI when the Mayor set him off on a 170-mile sponsored walk from Tunbridge Wells to Weymouth. Mike was...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Holywell
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 21st February the vessel referred to above, the s.s. Martello, of Hull, was observed from Caister, and the crew of the Life-boat Govent Garden assembled and launched their boat. They found the Winterton...
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Argo
— On the morning of the 1st May the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Copt Point, between Hythe and Folke- stone. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was foggy. At first it was thought that...
Barmouth: Trh the Prince and Princess of Wales With Barmouth Lifeboatmen
Barmouth: TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Barmouth lifeboatmen, looking at the picture presented to the Princess after she had named the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat Princess of Wales, photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs