LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duke of Kent President of the RNLI Visited Bridlington Yorkshire on 4th October 1972 and Is Seen In the Top Picture Shaking Hands With Mr John Wright Head L
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., visited Bridlington, Yorkshire, on 4th October, 1972, and is seen in the top picture shaking hands with Mr. John Wright, head launcher, watched by Coxswain John King. In the centre photograph the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Associate Membership
The Committee of the Association has decided with regret to discontinue this grade of membership since a subscription of -£ is insufficientto cover the free quarterly issue of THE LIFE-BOAT and to cover administrative costs. Existing...
Category: Articles
(Far Left) Becky Rose
... and the staff enjoy themselves too! (far left) Becky Rose from Fundraising Supporter Services and her friend Jo Paterson sell lottery tickets. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Normanby Hall
TWENTY-NINE HOURS AT SEA Cloughey, Co. Down. At 8.25 a.m.
on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the coaster Normanby Hall had asked for assistance as she was aground off South Rock. The life-boat Constance...
Life-Boats In the Battle of Britain.
The defeat of Germany's air attack on this country in the autumn of 1940, known as the Battle of Britain, lasted, according to the official accounts, from August 8th. to October 31st. During these 85 days life-boats were launched to the...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (1)
Lymington, Hampshire. At 7.5 a.m.
on 22nd June, 1965, the police informed the acting honorary secretary that a fishing boat was overdue. At 7.25 the inshore rescue boat was launched in a slight, gusting to gentle,...
A Life-Boatman's Generosity. Mr. Richard Cowling. Late Signalman of Scarborough
IT is not only on the seas that Life-boatmen show the fine stuff of which they are made, and we feel sure that the following story will be read with as much pleasure and pride as any story of gallantry and devotion in the actual work of...
Category: Articles
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
As announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat, the Committee of Management decided in May that every Life-boat Station, on the completion of a hundred years, should be presented with a Vellum to be hung in the Town Hall or other public...
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Puffin
About 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March, the yawl | Puffin, of Wexford, with a crew of six hands, grounded on the west side of the bar, when coming into port from the fishing-grounds. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 15 were at once...
Athelduchess (1)
AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
She was the...