LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Poole Ladies' Guild Started Its Tenth Year With An Exhibition of Crafts at Which There Were Demonstrations Ranging from the Making of Dorset Buttons < 13-Year-Old David
Poole ladies' guild started its tenth year with an exhibition of crafts at which there were demonstrations ranging from the making of Dorset buttons 13-year-old David Johns), to enamel craft I Mrs Renate Wadham). Peter Fallon shows his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jersey Channel Islands November 17 1987:
JF.RSKY, Channel Islands, November 17, 1987: Helmsman Tony Able, on board St Catharine's C class inflatable lifeboat, towing home the States Fire Service Zodiac inflatable rescue craft which had become swamped and suffered engine failure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.
Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...
Category: Articles
Life first
Selflessness
We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...
Category: Articles
Building Up to the Millennium
Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
Category: Articles
Plymouth's Lifeboats 1803-1974 By Jeff Moiris
FROM PULLING 'ORIGINAL' TO HIGH SPEED 'FAST AFLOAT' WAVENEYPLYMOUTH, host city for the first International Lifeboat Exhibition, 'Lifeboat International', from July 19 to August 17, was one of the 31 stations to have a...
Category: Articles
Remembering those lost
This year marks the centenary of the Fethard lifeboat disaster, when nine volunteers from the Co Wexford station died during a brave rescue attempt in unforgiving seas.
On 20 February 1914, 14 Fethard crew members launched...
Category: Articles
Willowbrook (1)
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Category: Advertisement
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1895
THE RIGHT HON. LORD TWEEDMOUTH, LORD PRIVY SEAL AND CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. Lord TWEEDMOUTH.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRK- BBCK, Bart., V.P., Chairman...
Category: Meetings
Birthday Honours
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the Birthday Honours for 1961 included:— Baronet. THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROLAND THOMAS NUGENT, D.L., J.P., president of the Cloughey...
Category: Awards