LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At the Earls Court, European Offshore Petroleum Exhibition last October, HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the RNLI, discusses with Leverton Engine Divisional Manager Ron Jones the lifeboat photographed, Aberdeen's 54ft Arun B P Forties... - View image in PDF

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY, MAY 17 1976: A YEAR OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENT ON SEA AND LAND A STANDING OVATION for a gold medallist and his crew at the end of the presentation of no less than 24 medals for gallantry; the report of an increase of...

The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann, published by Collectors' Books at £24.50 ISBN 0 946604 02 9 In late May and early June 1939 the name of a small Flanders port became a household word, a name which even now, almost...

Two intrepid travellers, John Ford and Melvyn Webster, made a 1,000 mile dash last October from St Helier, Jersey, to Aith, Shetland, and raised £2,250 for the RNLI.

First they flew from St Helier to Southampton, this... - View image in PDF

Buckle offers Following publication of my letter in THE LIFEBOAT of Autumn 1991 which explained I was seeking an RNLI buckle for a leather belt like the one my father used to own, I have been lucky and had a belt and buckle sent to me, as...

Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: May 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 10 and April 10 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: April 20, May 14,15 (three times) and 17 Aith, Shetland 52ft Barnett: May 18 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft din Rother...

1st November, 1934, to 31st January, 1935.

Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Annual meeting on 29th January, General Sir Walter Braithwaite, G.C.B., Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea! patron of the branch,...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.

on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....