LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Daunt Lightship
BaUycotton, Co. Cork.—This motor lifeboat was on service from the llth February to the 14th February, and rescued the crew of eight of the Daunt Lightship.—Rewards, gold medal, silver and bronze medals with vellums, binocular glass, letters...
Invermore, of Dublin (6)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Life-Boat Day In Greater London
LIFE-BOAT day in Greater London was held on 15th May. Among those who helped with the appeal were the Lady Mayoress, who collected at the Mansion House, the Mayoress of West- minster, who collected in Trafalgar Square, and the Mayors of...
Category: Articles
Iliad
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 10th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized near Monkstone Point. At 3.50 the life- boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a moderate...
For Her 1981-82 Charity the Mayoress Canterbury Mrs Owen Wildman
For her 1981-82 charity, the Mayoress of Canterbury, Mrs Owen Wildman, chose the RNLI as her special charity and raised more than £4,000 for Whitstable lifeboat station. Of that amount, her husband the Mayor, Councillor 'Biff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Launch! The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat, The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33), a 52' Barnett housed slipway boat built in 1960, was named by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh on July 7, 1961. She has launched on service 56 times and saved 58... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Littleover and Ilkeston Branches
Boxing clever: Les Brunskill of Alvaston, Derby, makes bird boxes and sells them for £2.50 each, all of which goes to the RNLI. He has made no fewer than 185 of them so far, at a total value of £462.50. He charges nothing for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-boats at Dunkirk
Nineteen of the Institution’s life-boats helped to bring off men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940. Two of these life-boats, Ramsgate and Margate, were manned by their own crews. They...
Category: Services
Bombed -- But Safe In Port.
A life-boat collecting box has come home after being bombed. It was on board a steamer which was attacked by aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her and 56 of them were landed by the Angle life-boat. Two days later she went...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 65. Lives rescued 43.
Februar- eeting.
Rossi "--• „ Co. Wexford.—On the 20th uoer, 1938, the crew of four of the motor schooner M....
Category: Services