LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
‘I DON’T WANT ANYONE GOING THROUGH WHAT WE HAVE’
Our lifesavers rescue thousands every Summer, but not everyone can be saved. That’s why the RNLI has launched its biggestever campaign – and why a father in mourning has bravely spoken about why everybody should Respect the Water...
Category: Articles
(Below) Members of the Mumbles Crew Meet Dan a Colussy President of Pan American World Airways Which Flew Them to New York to Take Part (Right) In the Harbo
(Below) Members of The Mumbles crew meet Dan A. Colussy, President of Pan American World Airways which flew them to New York to take part (right) in the Harbor Festival. (I. to r.) Tony Lewis, Arthur Eynon, Carl Smith, Bob Garner and Gary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"A Fisherman's Yarn"
IN 1948 Mr. Paul Rotha made for the Institution a twenty-minute film, with music and a running commentary, which was to show the Life-boat Service from the point of view of the fishermen from whom its crews are drawn. It was taken at...
Category: Articles
Prince of Wales' Day In London. The Prince Leaving the Library Hall, Whitechapel
The Prince Leaving The Library Hall Whitechapel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
100 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of August, 1886.
A NIGHT ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.
ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which...
Category: Articles
Right: Mrs Aisher (Chairman of the Central London Committee) the Countess of Normanton (1991 Ball Chairman) and Mrs Christie (Ball Vice Chairman)
Right: Mrs Aisher (chairman of the Central London committee), the Countess of Normanton (1991 ball chairman) and Mrs Christie (ball vice chairman).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Trawler Pearl and H.M.S. Viva II
MAY 8TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Shortly after 4 A.M. a message was received from the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to meet a trawler due at St. Ives at 5 o’clock with survivors on board...
Rescue
RescUe Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity....
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat Service—Past and Present
Years Ago The following is an extract from the speech by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt (Chairman of the RNLI, 1923-56) at the 1935 Annual General Meeting and reported in THE LIFEBOAT of June 1935.
and then had to go on to New...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies: Two Station Lifeboats at Mallaig and Aldeburgh; Relief Lifeboat at Poole; and the Prototype Tyne Class Lifeboat In the City of London
Mallaig, Inverness-shire EARLIER BAD WEATHER on Saturday September 11, 1982, gave way to a bright sunny morning at the attractive west coast of Scotland harbour of Mallaig as preparations were made for the naming of the station's new...
Category: Inaugurations