LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emmeline, of Bourdeux
The services of this Life-boat were also called into requisition on the 31st December, on the afternoon of which day a large vessel, distant some eight miles to the eastward of Sidmouth, was seen flying a flag of distress, during stormy...
Eclipse
FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—The schooner Eclipse, of Peel, Isle of Man, bound from Fleetwood for Liverpool, with gravel, was seen aground on the most dangerous part of Taylor's Bank, having stranded there in misty weather, on the morning of...
Princess Marina Duchess of Kent Presenting the Silver Medal to Coxswain J Nicolson of Aith for His Part In the Rescue of the Crew of 12 of the Trawler Juniper on 19th Feb
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, presenting the silver medal to Coxswain J. Nicolson, of Aith, for his part in the rescue of the crew of 12 of the trawler Juniper on 19th February, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Still Doing Good Work In Retirement: Dowager Ex Rnlb Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn When Acting As One of the Escort Boats for the 1977 Gravesend to Greenwich A
Still doing good work in retirement: Dowager, ex RNLB Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, when acting as one of the escort boats for the 1977 Gravesend to Greenwich and back sponsored row, organised by Gravesend branch, towed in two boats with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Skiff Rabbit
Margate, Kent.—At 1.44 on the after- noon of the 10th of August, 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that a boat had capsized off Grenham Bay and another boat, with two men on board was trying to tow her. There was a...
H.R.H. Princess Marina— the Institution's President
IN the last issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, it was reported that Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, had now completed 25 years as President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Princess succeeded the late Duke of Kent, who had been the...
Category: Articles
The Grosvenor Circle Drama Group
The Royal National Life-Boat Institution's drama group, 'The Grosvenor Circle', staged their third production, 'Make it Murder', by Jack Last, at the Abbey Community Association Theatre on 27th and 28th March, 1969. In...
Category: Advertisement
The Hatch Boat (18-01) Which Was Illustrated In the Life-Boat for March 1967 Has Been Modified and Is Now Self-Righting She Can Be Used As a Boarding Boat
The Hatch boat (18-01), which was illustrated in The Life-boat for March, 1967, has been modified and is now self-righting. She can be used as a boarding boat to take life-boat crews from the shore to life-boats which remain afloat, and she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From the Gold Coast
THE Institution gets many letters from West Africa, asking for its "catalogue." Here is one of the latest. It comes from the Gold Coast.
"I am very happy to write you this letter. Please, sir, I beg you to...
Category: Correspondence
Saucy Sue
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 1.36 p.m.
on 4th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Caldy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown slipped her moorings at 1.44 in a...