LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
WINDOWS INTO THE PAST
A stunning collection of glass plate negatives brings the RNLI’s lifesaving history into a new light
The RNLI’s Heritage Team are always on the look-out for artefacts and materials that document the lifesaving work of the...
Category: Articles
Brooke Marine Ltd.
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The S.S. Corea
DEC. 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 11 P.M. a heavy explosion was heard, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 11.20 P.M. A N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate swell. The life-boat found the S.S. Corea, of Goole,...
H.M. Trawler Caulonia
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
Your Letters
A letter from The Queen Mother Brian Miles. RNLI Director for the past 11 years, retired at the end of 1998.
HM The Queen Mother wrote to Brian in October to offer her best wishes and congratulations on a job well...
Category: Correspondence
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Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 4.—The 35-Feet 6 Inches Self-righting Type
UNTIL 1921 all the Institution's motor life-boats were of a weight which made it necessary that they should either lie afloat or be launched down a slip-way.
In that year, the first boat was sta- tioned at Eastbourne of...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CROMER, NORFOLK.—On the 1st March a N.E. gale was blowing with squalls of hail and snow. At about 6.30 P.M.
signals of distress were seen from the barque Lodore, of Liverpool, which was at anchor about four miles off. The...
Category: Services
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Salonika
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.53 on the evening of the 10th of July, 1960, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the Brake Sands three and a half miles south of Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael...