LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duke of Kent President of the Rnli Receives the "Large" Cheque for £9136372 from Four Young Scouts Representing Northern Ireland Scotland Wales and England:
The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, receives the "large" cheque for £91,363.72 from four young Scouts representing Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England: it was one of the happiest moments at the 1975 Annual... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Princess Flies to Wales. New Life-Boats Are Named
ON two sunshining days in May Prin- cess Marina, Duchess of Kent and President of the Institution, named new life-boats which will serve two stations on the Welsh coast, Llandudno in North Wales and St. David's in the south.
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Category: Inaugurations
The Duke of Edinburgh Took a Keen Interest In the Experimental I.R.B. Which Has Been Constructed By the Boys, When He and the Queen Paid a Visit to Atlantic College, Glamorgan, on 25th June.
The Duke of Edinburgh took a keen interest in the experimental I.R.B., which has been constructed by the boys, when he and the Queen paid a visit to Atlantic College, Glamorgan, on 25th June. He is seen here with Commander D.G.Wicksteed, R.N... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, Presenting Captain J. D. Jeavons, a Member of the Crew of the Moelfre Life-Boat, With the Bronze Medal for his Part in the Nafsiporos Episode on 2nd December, 1966
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, presenting Captain J. D.
Jeavons, a member of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat, with the bronze medal for his part in the Nofsiporos episode on 2nd December, 1966 (see THE LIFE-BOAT for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Festivities In Courtmacsherry Harbour During the Naming Ceremony
Festivities in Courtmacsherry Harbour during the naming ceremony for the station's new Trent Class Frederick Storey Cockburn with the station's previous boat, the Waveney class Arthur and Blanche Harris, visible astern of the new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877, Amendment Act, 1889
NOT the least important work dene by the Legislature during this year's session has been the passing of an Act to amend the " Eemoval of Wrecks Act, 1877." Prior to this Act becoming law no provision existed for the removal of...
Category: Articles
The Margate Life-Boat Saves a French Trawler
AT 3.50 early on the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the coast- guard rang up to say that the police had reported that the trawler Notre Dame de la Mer, of Boulogne, had run on to the rocks on Foreness Point about one and a half miles...
Category: Services
The Government Barges L.C.M. 1144 and L.C.M. 1229
JANUARY 6TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
At 1.5 in the afternoon, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported two barges aground on Scroby Sands. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Jose'...
H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent Presents the Bronze Medal for Gallantry to Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie, of Ramsgate
HRH The Duchess of Kent Presents The Bronze Medal For Gallantry To Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie of Ramsgate. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Demonstrations of Lifeboat / Helicopter Co-Ordination Exercises Were Part of the Programme the Raf Visit Pelworlh Spectacular
Demonstrations of lifeboat I helicopter co-ordination exercises were part of the programme . . . the RAF visit Pelworlh spectacular.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs