LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1956 80,578 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1956 was one in which greater...
Category: Articles
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...
An Auster Aircraft (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 20th of March, 1953, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent...
Category: Meetings
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The first four pages of the Report give an historical sketch of the Institution, and describe its object, composition and management, after which it continues as follows:— COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE INSTITUTION.
During the...
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An Aeroplane (142)
OCTOBER 22ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 2.57 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in the sea S.E. of the Fairlight Coastguard Station A light E.S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea...
Above: Ian Venner
Above: Ian Venner manoeuvres the dead whale into the slings, ready for towing to the local boatyard.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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...
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'An angel in yellow'
How does it feel to be saved by a lifeboat crew? Bruce Dibben was grateful and humble enough to send a letter of thanks to his rescuers …
‘I would like to pay tribute to my rescuers from Tenby...
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An Aeroplane (32)
NOV. 19TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea. The life-boat could find no trace of her, and news was later received that the aeroplane herself was picked up by a trawler, but that its crew was missing. ...