LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The British Railways Ferry Princess Victoria
On the 31st of January, 1953, the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria sank in a gale in the Irish Sea.
The Portpatrick, Donaghadee, Clou- ghey and Newcastle, Co. Down, life- boats were all launched on service.
The French Dandy Henri et Helene
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.-—At 8 A.M. on the 17th April, blowing hard from E.N.E., in consequence of signals of distress from the French dandy Henri et Helene, of Nantes, the Life-boat Covent Garden went out of the river and placed a pilot and 2...
Gravesend Guild at the Grand Christmas Bazaar
An attractive display of RNLI souvenirs laid out by the ladies of Gravesend guild at the grand Christmas Bazaar which made £558.
Although there are only ten members of the guild they raised £2,367 last year and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fleetwood Sea Cadet Harbour Launch
OUT ALL DAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 11.40 a.m. on i8th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Royal Navy frigate H.M.S. Blackpool, which was anchored off Blackpool, had the Fleetwood sea cadet harbour launch alongside, badly damaged....
The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago
Gold Medallion Awarded for a Service on the Northumbrian Coast.
" Newton-by-the-Sea, " Tuesday, 2nd December, 1828.
" SIR,—It is with the deepest regret I have to communicate to you the...
Category: Correspondence
Two Life-boatmen Cross the Atlantic
IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Dog of Aldeburgh
All kinds of memorials have been erected to man but among the more unusual is this one portraying the life-size model of a dog. It can be seen on the front at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast overlooking a children's model yacht pond. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Royal Marine Landing Craft L.136
GROUNDED CREW A red flare sighted in the vicinity of the Bernbridge Ledge buoy on 14th June, 1971, led to the Bembridge, Isle of Wight, life-boat the Jack Shayler and the Lees being launched at 11.40 p.m.
in an east north...
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THE Imperial Japanese Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck (Dainippon Teikoku Suinam Kiusai Kwai) was established in 1879, but was not incorporated by Imperial Charter until 1899. At the present time the Society has 17 stations on the...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals