LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ST. AGNES, SCILLT ISLANDS. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat establishment at Priglis Bay, St. Agnes, it being considered very desirable to place a second Life-boat on the Scilly Islands. The new boat is...
Category: Articles
In May a Delegation from the RNLI Visited Malmo Sweden for An International Conference of Voluntary Life-Boat Organisations Organised By the Swedish Life-Boat Services
In May a delegation from the R.N.L.I, visited Malmo, Sweden, for an International Conference of voluntary life-boat organisations organised by the Swedish Life-boat Service. During her voyage from Dover to the conference, the 52-foot Arun... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A weighty endeavour
When cargo ship Red Duchess’s engines failed in severe gales her crew were helpless to stop her drifting towards the rocky shore of the Isle of Rum …
Tuesday 2 November 2010 was what’s known...
Category: Articles
The Drowned at Sea
NEVER bronze or slab of stone May their sepulchre note; O'er their burial-place alone, Shall the shifting sea-weed float.
Not for them the quiet grave .Underneath the daisied turf; They rest below the restless wave,...
Category: Poetry
Being Sure on Board
Being sure on board Proceeds from the sale of Sailboard Insurance for the year 1988/89 amounted to £2,014 and a cheque for this amount was presented to Lt Cdr Brian Miles (left), director of the Institution, by Michael Pettifer (right),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services (1)
LIFEBOAT SERVICES AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1993 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON W50: Aug 20, Oct 10 and 18 D class Oct 8 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 19, 25, Sept 3 and 7 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2,12 (twice), 15 Sept 4...
Category: Services
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Lionel Scott of the Mumbles.
At the age of twenty-nine Coxswain Scott is one of the youngest cox- swains in the Service. He was appoin- ted in 1955 and first joined the Mumbles...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Ronald Hardy Presents Members of Swanage Crew to His Royal Highness: (' to R) Walter Bishop John Bishop Philip Dorey Eric Dorey (Shaking Hands) and Se
Coxswain Ronald Hardy presents members of Swanage crew to His Royal Highness: (.'. to r.) Walter Bishop, John Bishop, Philip Dorey, Eric Dorey (shaking hands) and Second Coxswain/Mechanic Victor Marsh. photographs by J. P.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Presentation of Lister Generator: (1 to R) Mike Pennell Executive Assistant to Director Rnli John Atterton Deputy Director Rnli; Cdr David Wilford Superintendent Pool
Presentation of Lister generator: (1. to r.) Mike Pennell, executive assistant to director RNLI, John Atterton, deputy director RNLI; Cdr David Wilford, superintendent Poole depot; John Ball, production director R. A. Lister Power Plant; Cdr... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When the Chilterns Branch Held a Fashion Show at Little Kingshill School Buckinghamshire Children Under Seven Painted This Large Picture of a Life-Boat In Action
When the Chilterns branch held a fashion show at Little Kingshill School, Buckinghamshire, children under seven painted this large picture of a life-boat in action with a helicopter overhead and an IRB approaching a vessel in...
Category: Drawings