LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Returning from Service
The Whitby motor life-boat on 23rd January, 1939. A moment after this photograph was taken the sea which is breaking over her stern completely enveloped her, and the onlookers thought that she had gone right under. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From the Fighting Services.
In 1942 the Navy, Army and Air Force, with their Women's Services, contributed £19,385. All three contributions were much larger than in 1941. The Navy's was twelve times as much as in the last year of peace; the Army's...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Terry George, coxswain/ mechanic of the Sennen Cove lifeboat, joined the crew of the station's all-weather lifeboat in 1983 and was appointed coxswain/ mechanic in 1989. Terry also became a member of the station's inshore lifeboat in...
Category: Articles
Appledram
DUNGENESS.—The ketch Appledram, of Foole, sprung a leak and foundered on the sand off No. 2 Battery on the 2 ad August, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing. The No. 1 Life-boat, E.A.O.B., was launched at 9.30 A.M., and the Life-boat...
Obituaries
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: February, 1984 Edgar William Garrad, formerly chief draughtsman, who retired in 1964 after 39 years service.
October, 1984 Mr R. H. Jones, honorary secretary of...
Category: Obituaries
An American Fortress Aeroplane (2)
OCTOBER 17TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Ten men had baled out from an American Fortress aeroplane, but no trace of them was found, although aeroplanes and other vessels joined in the search. - Rewards : Cromer, £9 3s. 6d. ; and...
The Development of the Lifeboat from Page 58
from page 58 no doubt be true to say that this fourth period—say the last 20 to 25 years— has seen the greatest and most far reaching changes in the history of the RNLI.
These changes include the advent of the small...
Category: Articles
Nostalgia Direct
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Category: Advertisement
20 Medals for Cromer & Gorleston.
The famous life-boat stations at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston have won for two services in August and October 20 medals, 25 vellums and £234 in money awards. The first service was to six steamers wrecked close together on the...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (99)
AUGUST 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A German bomber had been shot down and had caught fire, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £5 9s. 6d..