LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Twenty Branches With the Highest Collection
WE publish on page 17 a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th September, 1929.
The total sum raised by these twenty Branches was...
Category: Branches
Zeus
At 11.10 a.m. on i6th April, 1967, a small boat which had left Shoebury for Wallersay bay, was reported overdue.
The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 11.20 in a moderate northerly wind and...
December
Launches 54 Lives rescued 76
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened...
Category: Services
Six Saved from Fishing Vessel
FOR the rescue of six people from a motor fishing boat on the 21st February, 1968, Coxswain George Jappy of Buckie has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry.
At 12.40 a.m. on that day, the Buckie...
Category: Services
Farewell!
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 78 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1931 62,687 Farewell! By Sir George Shee, Secretary of the...
Category: Articles
A R Pari Huws Is Researching the History of the 32Ft Surf Lifeboat Class
A. R. Pari Huws is researching the history of the 32ft Surf Lifeboat class (see letter above) and is particularly interested in details of the unusual Hotchkiss Internal Cone propulsion system used on many of the class.
The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Shoreham Harbour
Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-boat.
H.R.H. THE PRINCE GEORGE, K.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the new motor life-boat at Shoreham Harbour, Sussex, on 15th March last. This is the eighth motor life-boat which he has...
Category: Inaugurations
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Lifeboat Services
SURVIVORS WALK TO LIFEBOAT Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands Both of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW...
Category: Services