LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The End of H.M.S. Warspite. A Dangerous Service By Penlee
AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...
Category: Services
Opening the New Life-Boat House at Cullercoats
FURTHER evidence of the popular ap- preciation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION and all that appertains to the saving of life at sea was furnished on Saturday, 8th August last, at Culler- coats. About ten years since the Co-...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1866
This large number of 714 lives is entirely independent of the 180 lives saved by the rocket apparatus, which is worked by the Coastguard, and provided by the Board of Trade, who continue to co-operate heartily and zealously with the NATIONAL...
Category: Meetings
(Above) the New Atlantic Boathouse at Penarth In South Wales
(Above) The new Atlantic boathouse at Penarth in South Wales was designed to provide modern accommodation for the lifeboat and crew yet harmonise with traditional sea front buildings nearby.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Rnli In Ireland By Edward Wake-Walker
There are 24 lifeboat stations around the coast of Ireland. Provisional figures for 1986 show that their 26 lifeboats (Dun Laoghaire and Howth have both D class and fast afloat lifeboats) launched 181 times rescuing 98 lives. The RNLI's...
Category: Articles
Century Life-Boat Day: The Coxswains of Walton-On-The-Naze and Ramsgate Collecting In Trafalgar Square
Century Life-Boat Day: The Coxswains of Walton-On-The-Naze and Ramsgate Collecting In Trafalgar Square. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Edinburgh Chatting With the Life-Boat Crew When He Visited Plymouth on 22nd July
The Duke of Edinburgh Chatting With The Life-Boat Crew When He Visited Plymouth On 22Nd July. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) a Fine Example of An Old Faroese Lutheran Church Close By Torshaven the Capital of the Islands
(Above) A fine example of an old Faroese Lutheran Church, close by Torshaven, the capital of the islands.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent Presenting Alderney Coxswain Stephen Shaw With the First of His Two Bronze Medals
Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent, presenting Alderney Coxswain Stephen Shaw with the first of his two bronze medals.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Supporter of the Future (Left) Casts His Eye Over a Model In the Poole Hq Museum
A Supporter of the Future (Left) Casts His Eye Over A Model In The Poole Hq Museum. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs