LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Invitation Only'
Invitation only.' By kind invitation of the crew, members of the Weymouth ladies' guild enjoyed a trip on the Weymouth lifeboat while she was on an exercise. The trip was intended as a token of thanks from the crew for all the hard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Pram Dinghy and Coral Star
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.9 on the night of 21st April, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been reported to have left Cowes pontoon in an 8-ft. pram dinghy for their ship in Cowes Roads, and there...
Groves & Guttridge Ltd
GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE LTD.
EAST AND WEST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Wood and Steel Boat Building, Refitting and Storage Contractors to: R.N.L.I., Trinity House, Ministry of Defence and Private Customers Telephone: Cowes...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE stock of life-boat Christmas cards, with a coloured reproduction of a life- boat returning from the rescue, of which particulars were given in the last number of The Life-boat, is now exhausted. The life-boat calendar for 1936, with...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Ida
The s.s. Ida, of Haugesand, on the 27th March, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, whilst bound from Newcastle to Rouen with a cargo of coal. A message was received from the Haisborough Light-vessel, reporting the casualty at about 6.15...
London Visitor
The new 70-foot steel life-boat 70-002 at Tower Pier, London, in March. Her visit to London was referred to at the annual meeting of the Institution on 20th April.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gladys Too
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
At 1.35 on 29th May, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was reported in difficulties off Towyn beach. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at two...
(Below) City of London
(Below) City of London returning from a demonstration run on the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and other principal guests on board.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Brighton: Volunteers vs the giant
Four incidents near New Brighton Lifeboat Station saw RNLI volunteers put their casualty care training into action during Wirral’s Giant Spectacular in October. As a giant puppet marched through the town, onlookers who took accidental...
Category: Articles
Tlemcen, the French Tug Champion and Bhutan
MAY 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer, with a number of women and children on board, had been bombed by enemy aircraft and was drifting in the South Downs. A light south-west...