LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Southwold and Dunwich ; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; Great Yarmouth and Gorlcston ; Montrose.
DURING the past summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of five Motor Life-boats have taken place. The first of these, the inauguration of...
Category: Inaugurations
Feature: Reader Survey
The Lifeboat is the RNLI's main contact with you, our supporters, so we are keen to ensure that it is doing its job well. To help us understand your needs better, we sent out 25,000 questionnaires with the autumn 2003 magazine. Thank you...
Category: Articles
The German Life-Boat Service
IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...
Category: Articles
An Airliner (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
Garth Inn at Helensburgh
It was more a case of Bells than shackles away at the Garth Inn at Helensburgh when Helmsmen Colin Gardner (I) and Michael Roberts whacked the bottle with their trusty hammers.
Giving them a helping hand is John Beaton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a repro- duction in colour of the picture on this page. It is a photograph of the 45' 6" Penlee life-boat W.
and S....
Category: Advertisement
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Robert Lee, of the Douglas, l.o.M., life-boat fl. A ColbyGubbinNo.2. Appointed coxswain in April, 1950, he had been a member of the crew for many years. Coxswain Lee's grandfather was bowman until he was lost at sea while...
Category: Articles
M.V. Andoni (1)
Tow by tug IN VERY BAD WEATHER on the evening of Thursday December 9, 1982, the 500 ton coaster MV Andoni suffered engine failure and anchored 2Vz miles south of Shoreham Harbour. She was seen by Coxswain Kenneth Everard of Shoreham Harbour...
A Boat (3)
Newhaven, Sussex - At 5.47 p.m. on 24th November, 1966, a report came from Roedean School that cries for help had been heard from just off the cliffs.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launchedat 5.55. It was three hours...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat to this station, in place of a smaller one which was found i unsuitable for the locality. A transporting- I carriage has also been sent...
Category: Articles