LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The French Lugger La Maria Francois
At daybreak on the 29th January, the French lugger La Maria Franyois, Le Pere Samson, was observed in a perilous position in St. Austell's Bay, with a flag of distress flying, the wind blowing a gale from S. by W. The Fowey life-boat was...
More than a work thing
‘You have a natural instinct with boats. No one can teach you that,’ said former Swanage Crew Member Winky Marsh to Holly Phillips then aged 15
A Londoner by birth, the young Holly spent her Summers in Swanage, Dorset, and...
Category: Articles
The Dutch Hospital Ship De Hoop
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 22nd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch hospital ship De Hoop, which was bound for Scarborough and was due to arrive at eight...
The Institution's Oldest and Youngest Supporters
THE Institution has again received her annual subscription from a lady in Dumfriesshire who is now in her 106th year. Three years ago she doubled her subscription, feeling that her next year's subscription was un- certain. She has again...
Category: Donations
The Late George Lennox Watson, Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution 1887-1904
IT is fifty years this year since George Lennox Watson, the yacht designer, of Glasgow, was appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution.
Looking back over these fifty years, one can say that Mr. Watson's...
Category: Articles
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 579, 588, 593, the following launches on service were made during the months September to November, 1968, inclusive: Aberdovey, Merionethshire...
Category: Services
Last October Jimmy Savile Qbe Received the Public Relations Statuette Awarded to Him for His Most Valuable Help to the Lifeboat Service from Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston a Deputy Chairma
Last October, Jimmy Savile, QBE, received the public relations statuette awarded to him for his most valuable help to the lifeboat service from Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution. The presentation was made... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hrh the Duchess of Kent Takes a Trip Round the Harbour In the Company of Coxswain Robert Douglas
HRH The Duchess of Kent takes a trip round the harbour in the company of coxswain Robert Douglas. - View image in PDF
Photo Tweeddale Press Group. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dentist Neil Thomas (Left Foreground) With the Crew and Helpers of the New Brighton Lifeboat After the Service
Dentist Neil Thomas (left foreground) with the crew and helpers of the New Brighton lifeboat after the service. - View image in PDF
(Photo Bob Bird). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Corporation of Trinity-House, London
WE believe that it will be both interesting and instructive to the readers of the Life- Boat Journal generally to have a brief account of the origin, objects, and functions of the Trinity House, London, which is one of the most ancient and...
Category: Articles