LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The...
Category: Services
Flylyte
Margate, Kent.—About seven o'clock in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported a motor yacht ashore on Margate Sands four and a half miles north-west of the lookout, and the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- swain for two and a half years, and for over nineteen years has been coxswain; so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...
Category: Articles
Amor, of Elsfletch
The Bradford life-boat also rescued the crew of 8 men of the brigantine Amor, of Elsfleth, which had stranded on the north- west spit of the Goodwin Sands .....
The S.S. Gorm
LOWESTOFT.—On the 10th November, at about 4 A.M., signals of distress were seen from a vessel on the Holm Sand.
The No. 1 Life-boat Samuel Plimsoll was launched, and on reaching the sand found the s.s. Gorm, of Copenhagen,...
Lt Cdr Brian Miles
Lt Cdr Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1989 - and forward to a new decade. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clifton Smith-Cox
AUGUST 1991 Clifton Smith-Cox CBE TD, founder member of Clevedon branch and president from 1974 until his death..
Category: Obituaries
Surgeon Captain F.W. Baskerville
Surgeon Captain F.W.
Baskerville was elected to the Committee of Management in 1964 and was appointed a Vice President in 1974. He became a Life Vice President in 1985..
Category: Obituaries