LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At the Sharp End
Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...
Category: Services
Martell Cognac
The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...
Category: Advertisement
Martell Cognac
The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...
Category: Advertisement
Martell Cognac
The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...
Category: Advertisement
Services of Life-Boats
NORFOLK LIFE-BOATS.—At daybreak, on Sunday, the 23rd of Feb. last, the wind plowing heavily from the N.N.E. with thick storms of rain and sleet, the sloop Hannah, of Gainsborough, laden with a general cargo bound to London, was observed by...
Category: Services
Inflatable Toys and Dinghies
Rye Harbour's C Class inflatable lifeboat was called out by Dover Coastguard at 1115 on Sunday 9 July to what would prove to be probably its busiest day since the station opened.
Hot weather had drawn huge crowds to...
In celebration of 2010
On 19 May 2011, the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting heard about the charity’s key activities from 2010, and the Annual Presentation of Awards recognised the outstanding achievements of lifesavers, fundraisers and...
Category: Articles
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
INDEX TO THE GIFT LIFE-BOATS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to ttie numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 123. Dodd, H..Esq . the late, 274. H...
Category: Donations
Gudveig of Oslo (2)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...
Kalavala and Camelot
Family rescued Nearly three months later, on the evening of Friday April 27, 1984, the station's own 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, back on station, was called out to the aid of a 30ft motor cruiser, Kalavala. She had...