LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April
Launches 23. Lives rescued 10.
APRIL 2ND. - AITH, SHETLANDS. At 4.30 P.M. the naval officer in charge, Shetlands, asked if the life-boat could take a military guard to Foula, and bring back some airmen whose Whitley bomber...
Category: Services
Loss of the "Arctic." Heroic Conduct of An Englishman
HEROIC CONDUCT OF AN ENGLISHMAN.
IT is with the mingled feeling of melancholy pleasure that is peculiar to the contemplation of great acts which have caused the death of the actors of them, that we add to our series of...
Category: Articles
Norwich Union
Even as they're growing older, your children will still look to you for support.
Especially when the grandkids come along! So, as well as offering words of wisdom, it's good to know you can also lighten the...
Category: Advertisement
CAPSIZE IN THE THAMES
The crew at Chiswick on the River Thames is one of our busiest – and in October 2016 they knew it wouldn’t be long before they were called on for the 3,000th time. But who would need their help?
Crew Members Gavin Simmons...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 14th February, 1935.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the death of the Rt. Hon. and Rev. the Earl of Devon, a vice-president of the Institution since...
Category: Committee
On March 20 Aith the Rnlvsmost Northerly Station Branch Held Its Annual Lifeboat Memorial Service Instigated By the Rev Magnus Cheyne Following the Loss of Lon
On March 20 Aith, the RNLVsmost northerly station branch, held its annual Lifeboat Memorial Service, instigated by the Rev.
Magnus Cheyne following the loss of Longhope Lifeboat. (I. to r.) Kenneth Henry, coxswain Aith... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gordon Peters and Ray Chapman
Eight years worth of beard was shaved off Gordon Peters and Ray Chapman in front of a large crowd at the Country House Hotel in Ellacombe, Torquay, by local hairdresser Steve Siampourou. The reason was that £231 had been offered for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Norwegian Bulk Carrier Blix
Injured seaman THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station was asked at 1600 on Tuesday October 14, 1980, if an injured seaman could be taken off the Norwegian bulk carrier Blix. A rendezvous was arranged for midnight in Dublin...
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Loss of Life from Shipwreck on Our Coasts
CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...
Category: Articles