LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Success
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCAHDINESHIRE. On the 2nd March the Life-boat Sarah Ann Holden was launched at 11 A.M. and went to the assistance of the fishingboat Success which was in danger while making for the harbour in a S.E. breeze and a rough sea. The...
People and Places
Drawing the crowds The RNLI's 67th national lottery draw took place at the Institution's Poole headquarters on Monday 31 October 1994 when Miss Millvina Dean, aged 82 and the youngest survivor of the Titanic tragedy, drew the winning...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy and a Sailing Dinghy
TWO CALLS TO DINGHIES IN ONE EVENING Blackpool, Lancashire. At 5.45 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard telephoned to say three youths in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea a mile off Rossall Point. At 6.15...
Margrit Angelika
Ramsgate, Kent - At 9.5 a.m. on 9th March, 1966, the honorary secretary telephoned the coastguard at Deal to inquire whether any distress calls or advice from lightvessels had been received regarding a German ship aground on the Goodwins...
New Ways of Raising Money
'Just Men' was the title of a long poem written by Mr. Anthony S. Burry, of Wickmead Close, Southend, in honour of the Moelfre life-boat and sold in booklet form by the Moelfre branch on their flag day on 28th August, 1967. The poem,...
Category: Donations
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
FOWEY (POLKERRIS), CORNWALL. On the 27th March, 1872, the Dutch schooner Douro was seen in distress in St. Austell Bay, during a heavy southerly gale, and in a rough sea. The Rochdale Life-boat soon went to her assistance; and at the request...
Category: Services
The Weather In 1896 from a Life-Boat Point of View
THE past year up to within the last ten days of September was a singularly uneventful one as regards Life-boat work; in fact, on the 22nd September the number of lives rescued by the Life-boats only totalled 65, and had the weather continued...
Category: Articles
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M.
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., died in Cromer and District Hospital on the night of the 13th of June, 1954, at the age of 78.
Henry Blogg's record as a life-boat- man is unique in the history of the Institution, for...
Category: Obituaries
An Inflatable Air Ded
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 2.30 p.m. on 25th May, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that a man on an inflatable air bed had drifted away from Clarach beach and was now a mile offshore. At 2.45 inshore rescue boat...
RNLI News
Volunteer action awards TJie Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards are recognised as one of the UK's most prestigious community award schemes.
Fundraising and operational volunteers with the RNLI are eligible for the awards...
Category: Articles