LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., Speaking at the Mermaid Ball Dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, London, In December, When a Cheque Was Presented for Over £51,000 By the Royal Briti
The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., speaking at the Mermaid Ball dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, London, in December, when a cheque was presented for over £51,000 by the Royal British Legion for the Solent class life-boat The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Memoriam. Captain the Hon. Henry Weyland Chetwynd, R.N.
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sustained a great loss by the death, on the 27th November last, of the late Captain CHETWYND, who had been a devoted and enthusiastic officer of the Committee for rather more than fourteen years....
Category: Obituaries
St Simeon
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
New Appointments
Mr. D. H. ROFF has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Institution in succession to Mr. Stirling Whorlow.
Mr. Roff, who was born in 1902, joined the Institution in 1919. He worked for a number of years in the Chief...
Category: Committee
May Day 1-31 May
‘ If it wasn’t for the helmet, I wouldn’t be here’
It’s easy to take the things that protect us for granted. We get used to having our day-to-day safety nets there
should we ever need them. But our volunteers...
Category: Articles
The 46Ft 9In Watson Lifeboat Sir Samuel Kelly on Her Last
The 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat Sir Samuel Kelly on her last journey from Bangor Shipyard last summer to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Bangor Road, Holywood. Sir Samuel Kelly was stationed at Donaghadee from 1950 to 1976 when she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
A Noble Rescue
ON Friday night, the 23rd October, 1868, a Government lighter named the Devon, was making her way round the Land's End to a western port. She was strongly built, and a good sea-boat, and could well enough have weathered the hard gale...
Category: Articles
Belgian Life-Boats Built In England
THREE motor life-boats have been built at Cowes, under the supervision of the Institution, for the Belgian Life-boat Service, which is maintained by the Ministry of Communications. All thre.e are Watson cabin boats, 46 feet 9 inches long, ...
Category: Articles
Sea Gleaner
Aith, Shetlands. At 9.26 on the morn- ing of the 21st September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a fishing vessel had broken down near the island of Papa Stour.
At 9.58 the life-boat John and...