LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts from Life-Boat Crews
THE Institution has recently received two gifts from its own Crews out of money which had been received for the salvage of vessels—£3 from the Clacton Crew, which on 2nd January last saved the barge Decima with two men on board, and...
Category: Donations
H.M. Trawler Kingston Cairngorm
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BEMBRIDGE JANUARY 29TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT During the afternoon an easterly blizzard was raging at Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.
The wind had been blowing hard for several days and a very...
Maria, of Ymuiden
APRIL 13TH. - ABERDEEN. News was received that a vessel was ashore on Aberdeen beach, and at 7 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched. The easterly breeze was light, but there was a heavy swell with a breaking...
A Royal Air Force Flying Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire. —• 20th September, 1938. A Royal Air Force flying-boat had crashed, and a search was made for two men who were missing from her, but without result.— Rewards, £15 8s. 6d..
Raymond Pope,
Raymond Pope, Bexleyheath branch president from 1980 until his death. Raymond was also on the RNLI staff for 20 years, the last 10 as the City of London regional organiser..
Category: Obituaries
(Above Left) Mrs Antonia Wallace Heaton Honorary Secretary of Kensington Branch With Some of Her Enthusiastic Royal Navy Helpers at the Ideal Home Exhibition Ol
(Above, left) Mrs Antonia Wallace Heaton, honorary secretary of Kensington branch, with some of her enthusiastic Royal Navy helpers at the Ideal Home Exhibition, Olympia, last spring. During the exhibition Navy crews collected £207.98... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lightfoot, of Newcastle
On the night of the 4th June the steamer Lightfoot, of Newcastle, bound in bal- last from Marburg, Germany, to the Tyne, ran aground about one hundred yards north of the coastguard station at Seaton Sluice in very thick weather.
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Open All Hours...
The RNLI's Open Days on 23 and 24 July were more popular than in any previous year, with more visitors, more displays and more things to see than ever before. With free access to two separate sites accurate estimates of the numbers...
Category: Articles
Supporters of the year
Every RNLI supporter helps save lives at sea, but there are some who deserve special recognition. At our Annual Presentation of Awards dozens of dedicated supporters were honoured. Prestigious supporter awards were presented in the following...
Category: Articles
Margaret Hobley
During a moderate northerly gale and heavy sea, on the 6th October, a vessel was observed about 7 A.M. to make signals denoting that she required help. She had been riding to anchor in the Princess Channel, but in a heavy squall lost both...