LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Life-Boat Achievement
THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...
Category: Services
Heemskirk
APRIL 15TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Just after midnight on the 14th April the coastguard reported a vessel to the N.E. by E. of Britannia Pier, which was not showing distress signals but which appeared to be ashore on Scroby...
Four More Lifeboats for the Rnlis Miniature
Four more lifeboats for the RNLis miniature collection were presented to Ravmond Baxter bv Brian Williams fr) at Earls Court. Made bv Mr Williams, thev are the gift of Mr and Mrs R. Phillips of Salcombe.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lord Coke, of Middlesborough
On the morn- ing of the 15th January, a man ran from Dunwich to Southwold to the house of the coxswain of the life-boat of the National Institution, and informed him that a boat was driving down from Dunwich with men in her, and was fast...
Milkman Peter Lushington
Milkman Peter Lushington is thanked for his efforts by Ray Isaac, Eastbourne branch chairman. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Amy
Shortly after midnight on the 4th-oth July, flares were observed by the Coastguard on duty at Westward Ho ! He at once communicated by telephone with Apple- dore, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was sent to the place...
New Year Message from the Chairman Commander F R H Swann OBE RNVR
• Over the past year I have been greatly impressed by the high morale of the crews and the voluntary workers whom I have had the pleasure of meeting. I am sure that this same spirit of dedication and confidence in the R.N.L.I.'s future... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston - East Division
Main photo (left) Ref 664830 Detailed photo (below) Ref 664838. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£1,617 from the Austin Motor Company.
Since March 1942 the Austin Motor Company has given the Life-boat Service £1617. 6s. It gives one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it builds for ships' life-boats, and so far these engines have brought the...
Category: Articles
£50 Prize Offered
UNDER the terms of the Thomas Gray Memorial Trust, the objects of which are "the advancement of the science of invention and the scientific and educa- tional interests of the British Mercantile Marine," the Council of the Royal...
Category: Awards