LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Queen
NOVEMBER 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 7.20 P.M. information was received from the naval base at Great Yarmouth, through the Cromer coastguard, that a boat was in distress half a mile E. by N. of Eccles, and the motor life-boat H. F. Bailey...
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SEPTEMBER 21ST. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 12 noon a message was received from the R.A.F. Observer Corps at Squires Gate that an R.A.F. pilot who was on patrol had reported a parachute down in the sea about three miles...
Speed Boats (1)
OCT. 18TH. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A message was received at 7.25 P.M. from the R.A.F. that two of their speedboats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head, and the motor lifeboat was launched with the help of soldiers.
Pilot
OCTOBER 29TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
At about 10 P.M. a message was received from Ross Lighthouse that a vessel was showing distress flares north of Ross Island. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor...
The Government Sea Plane No. 79
At 8.25 P.M. on the 24th April a request was made that the motor Life-boat Albert Edward should be sent out to pick up the Government seaplane No. 79, and also a Government motor launch which had gone to her assistance, but had broken down....
Whose sea is it anyway?
The RNLI's lifeboats operate to 100 miles from shore – but who controls the waters they navigate?
Freedom of the Seas
Across the world, land has been divided by mankind...
Category: Articles
Launching and Recovery PART II: BEACH LAUNCH by Edward Wake-Walker RNLI Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
ON A CLEAR DAY at Walmer the unaccustomed visitor can be forgiven for doubting his own knowledge of geography when he sees the bold outline of France, seemingly only a pebble's throw across the curving surface of the English Channel....
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Denmark
By C. V. FABRICIUS, Manager of the North Jutland Life-Boat Institution.
THE Danish Life-Boat Institution, as at present organised, was established by the Act of 26th March, 1852.
It is an institution...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 23rd of March, 1954, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Princess Royal pre- sented...
Category: Meetings
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual Meetings for 1995, held on 18 May, took place at a new venue in London - the Barbican Centre in the City.
The move from the South Bank Centre was a break with the tradition of the past few years and...
Category: Meetings