LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
AT the Institution's annual general meeting, which was held on the 6th April, some remarkable facts about the year 1964 were given in the Chairman's report.
The year was in many respects an exceptional one. There...
Category: Articles
The Steamers Lisburn & Baronminto, and S.S. Patia, Clumber Hall and Alcora (1)
OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...
Inaugural Ceremony at Llandudno
THE new motor life-boat at Llandudno which has replaced a pulling and sailing life-boat, was formally inaugurated on 28th September. She is a Welsh gift, having been built out of legacies received from the late Dr. Thomas Richards, of...
Category: Inaugurations
The Rnli Float Carrying a 21' Atlantic Ilb at the Lord Mayor's Show on November 10 the Theme Was 'The Year of the Life-Boat' By Courtesy of Keystone
The RNLI float carrying a 21' Atlantic ILB at the Lord Mayor's Show on November 10. The theme was 'The Year of the Life-boat'. by courtesy of Keystone. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Marie II
FUEL HAD RUN OUT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.10 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Marie II, a converted ship's lifeboat, was long overdue in reaching Conway.
She was...
A Hundred Threepenny Bits
A POLICEMAN on point-duty in Brid- lington, Yorkshire, one day last June, had an envelope thrust into his hand by a woman, who said : " That is for the life-boat. I have saved it up." She then ran away. When the envelope was...
Category: Donations
Anna Liffey, of Dublin
Yacht given tow WHEN a man on the shore reported seeing a yacht driven aground, the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, lifeboat put out on May 4.
She was the lifeboat Dunleary II, on temporary duty at the station, and she slipped...
International Assistance from Westcountry Lifeboat
Penlee's relief Arun class A.J.R. and L.G. Uridge is pictured with two casualties, dealt with in a two-week period.
The lifeboat is pictured preparing to take an injured man off a120ft Spanish trawler in the sheltered... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jersey Post Office
JERSEY CENTEMRY Six famous rescues are immortalised by Jersey Artist Gerald Palmer in this dramatic set of stamps commemorating the R.N.L.I. Jersey Lifeboat Station Centenary.
ISSUE DATE 1st JUNE 1984 The Jersey Post Office...
Category: Advertisement
Crew of the Porthdinllaen Lifeboat In the 1950S.
When some of these award winners joined the RNLI, crews wore oilskins, sou'westers and kapok lifejackets, like those worn by the crew of the Porthdinllaen lifeboat in the 1950s. The Waveney class lifeboat Ipp22~23) was yet to be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs