LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RNLI and me: Julian Fellowes
The multi-award winning creator of Downton Abbey tells us about visiting a lifeboat station and imagines it as a setting for a new drama
WHO IS JULIAN FELLOWES?
Julian Fellowes is a novelist, Conservative peer,...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 19th February, 1931.
SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., in the Chair.
Passed a Vote of Thanks to His Grace the DUKE OF MONTROSE, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., for attending Life-boat Ceremonies at Aberdeen and...
Category: Committee
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge (2)
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GREENORE, Co. LOUTH. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat station at Greenore, Carlingford Lough, in consequence of the urgent representation of several important authorities and local residents, who considered...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Portugal
By VICE-ADMIRAL HYPACIO DE BRION, Inspector and Secretary of the Instituto de Soccorros y Naufragos.UNTIL 1892, Portugal, although a mari-j time country, situated on the western l extreme of the European Continent, and:, on the route for all...
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A Royal Engineers Landing Craft
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 10.6 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1952, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a Royal Engineers landing craft, with a crew of seven, was in danger of being driven towards the boom between No...
Does Your Boat Check Out?
Safety Equipment Advisory Check How does your boot chock outP On 16 November 1999, Melvyn and Jean Taylor of Doncaster were sitting in their motor cruiser at Strawberry Island Boating Club waiting for their RNLI SEA Check Adviser to carry...
Category: Articles
After Opening the Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth on July 19 Hrh the Duke of Kent Flew By Helicopter to Sennen Cove Conwall to Name Diana White Semen's New 3
After opening the Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth on July 19, HRH the Duke of Kent flew by helicopter to Sennen Cove, Conwall, to name Diana White, Semen's new 37' 6" Rather lifeboat. Nigel Warington Smyth, OBE, a vice-president... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whitby Sunday October 19 1980: at 1030 a Converted Ship's Lifeboat Was Seen Heading Towards the Harbour Entrance Conditions Were Very Dangerous With a Very Heavy Swell and Breaking Sea
Whit by, Sunday October 19, 1980: At 1030 a converted ship's lifeboat was seen heading towards the harbour entrance.
Conditions were very dangerous, with a very heavy swell and breaking seas at the bar and in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs