LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
River Thames Jubilee Pageant: Sheerness Lifeboat Helen Turnbull With Hmy Britannia at Tower Bridge (Below) and (Right) Embarking the Lard Mayor of Westminster
River Thames Jubilee Pageant: Sheerness lifeboat Helen Turnbull with HMY Britannia at Tower Bridge (below) and (right) embarking the Lard Mayor of Westminster, for whom she acted as barge. (Left) A fundraising cruise up the Thames following... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
As Was Reported In the December, 1967, Issue of the Life-Boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a Member of the IRB Crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler
As was reported in the December, 1967, issue of The Life-boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, after their marriage left the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Anson Aeroplane
Torbay, Devon.—At 4.7 on the after- noon of the 19th of April, 1951, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that an Anson aeroplane had crashed into the sea and sunk about a mile off Orestone Rock. At 4.20 the life-boat George Shee left her...
An Aeroplane (169)
NOVEMBER 4TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. Two airmen had baled out of a British Defiant trainer aeroplane when its engine failed, but nothing was found, and it was learnt that the pilot had come down on shore. Later the body of...
Sir George Shee: An Appreciation
THE Royal National Life-boat Institu- tion has had only four secretaries during the 107 years of its existence. The first was Thomas Edwards, who served from 1824 to 1850. Richafd Lewis (1850 to 1883) and Charles Dibdin (1883 to 1910) were...
Category: Articles
A Naval Pinnace (2)
SEPTEMBER 1 0TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The...
Help from Golf Clubs
•DURING 1938 seventy-six golf clubs held competitions in aid of the life-boat service and contributed £280 11*. 9d.
Ten more clubs held competitions than in 1937 and £58 more was contri- buted. The same appeal...
Category: Articles
The Rye Disaster. Result of the Board of Trade Inquiry
Owing to the Rye disaster, and the Board of Trade Inquiry which was held on it, the issue of THE LIFEBOAT which should have been published in February has been delayed, as it was felt to be most important that it should contain the full...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1866
This large number of 714 lives is entirely independent of the 180 lives saved by the rocket apparatus, which is worked by the Coastguard, and provided by the Board of Trade, who continue to co-operate heartily and zealously with the NATIONAL...
Category: Meetings
Saved from sinking car
INVERGORDON | 6 SEPTEMBER
Invergordon RNLI rescued a man from a sinking Land Rover at Cromarty Firth. The all-weather lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was called at 6.40am to Invergordon Sailing Club...
Category: Articles