LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr N. H. Avis, of Durrington, near Hastings, who is a member of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society
Mr N. H. Avis, of Durrington, near Hastings, who is a member of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, a year or two ago made a model of the 44-foot steel lifeboat Faithful Forester which is stationed at Dover. It has won high praise from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Archon and The S.S. Treherbert
At 11.17 P.M. on the 6th September the coxswain received a message from the Ramsgate coastguard that two ships had been in collision off N.E. Spit buoy. They were the s.s.
Archon, of Syra, Greece, bound with a cargo of...
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor My father and I witnessed the whole incident reported in ‘Between a rock and an angry sea’ in the LifeboatWinter...
Category: Correspondence
A Gold-Medal Service at Ballycotton
By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
Category: Services
Books
• Patrick Howarth, who retired as the RNLI's public relations officer in 1979, is far from retired from his career as an author. His latest book, George VI (Hutchinson, £12.50) recently published, is a meticulous biography of a shy,...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Dutch Life-Boat Service
As was indicated in the important article contributed by my friend, Mr. de Booy, in the February, 1921, issue of this journal, the beneficent influence of Sir William Hillary's noble initiative in the foundation of the ROYAL NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
Cdr Leslie Hill Answers the Questions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr Anthony Barber on the Rnll's Principal Exhibit An Atlantic 21Ilb (Below) Photograph By C
Cdr Leslie Hill answers the questions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Anthony Barber on the RNLl's principal exhibit, an Atlantic 21ILB (below). - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Fox Photos. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies
Two naming ceremonies in one day were carried out by H.R.H. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, on Thursday, 8th July, 1965.
Arriving by a helicopter of the Queen's Flight at Cromer and landing on the playing field of...
Category: Inaugurations
A Rubber Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1959, thecoastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile off St.
Mary's Bay and that a child was...
Lifeboat People
Long service Early last year members of Bognor Rotary Club presented an inscribed chair for Selsey lifeboat station's crew room. It was in memory of the late Mr R. D. Bray, a Rotarian who had been associated with Bognor Regis RNLI branch...
Category: Articles