LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Newhaven. H.R.H. The Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, at Scarborough and Bridling ton.

EIGHTEEN Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held during the five months...

Swanage, Dorset. At 4.58 on the afternoon of the 4th of June, i960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report that a boy was stranded on the cliffs at the north end of Ballard Down near Old Harry Rocks. Police and...

ON the outbreak of War last year many Branch Committees felt that the arrangements which they had in prospect for the benefit of the Institution should be abandoned and their labours devoted to the many War Funds which immediately sprang...

Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...

MARCH MEETING NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

Shortly before eight in the morning of the 23rd January, 1940, three motor fishing boats, each with three men on board, saw the British steamer Baltanglia and the Norwegian...

your shout Dear Editor i’ve always enjoyed reading the Lifeboat. this time i read it over breakfast when the washing machine – a noisy one – was on. the new eye-catching arrangement held me riveted until fi nally the silence drew my...

SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...

Ramsgate: After naming Ralph and Joy Swann, HRH The Duchess of Kent and Commander Swann (/.) embarked for a run out to sea in the 44' Wa eney class lifeboat.

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