LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RNLI and me: Fern Britton
The TV presenter and author talks Cornwall, creativity and crabbing
What inspired someone who’s spent a lot of their life around London to write about a tiny Cornish fishing village? I’ve loved Cornwall, especially Looe,...
Category: Articles
A Naval Aeroplane (1)
- Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.13 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard, that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the Harwich police had reported that a man and a woman were stranded on a sandbank in Dovercourt Bay...
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COASTGUARD, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH Flamborough, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs. A helicopter had landed on...
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNU family, past and present
Interrupted nuptials
When Littlestone-on-sea RNLI volunteers Matt and Heather Crittenden decided to hold their wedding ceremony at the...
Category: Articles
Sidelights on Stations
WHEN Miss Grace Monro gave £1,000 to be divided largely between the life-boat crews and helpers at Holy Island, North Sunderland, Penlee and Sennen Cove during 1964, the Holy Island crew decided to express their gratitude by sending her...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Richard Eglon, Whitby
Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...
Category: Obituaries
August
Launches 22. Lives rescued 18.
AUGUST 5TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 4.15 A.M. the naval officer in command at Appledore said that the life-boat was wanted four miles W.N.W. from Hartland Point, and the...
Category: Services
New Life-Boathouse at Southend-On-Sea
IN 1928 the Institution stationed at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, a motor life- boat of the Ramsgate type. This life-boat, which had been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, was named Greater London in the following year by H.R...
Category: Inaugurations
Ethel
On the 16th April, while a moderate gale was blowing from S. by W. with a rough sea, the trawler Ethel, of Great Yarmouth, anchored about 1J miles N.
of the harbour awaiting the tide. When the flood tide had made she got...