LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Life-Boats Are Named. Countess Howe at Yarmouth
OVER a year after she was first introduced experimentally into the life-boat service, the 48-foot 6-inch Oakley prototype life-boat, The* Earl and Countess Howe, was named and dedicated at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
Walton and Frinton: Tsunami at Anchor South of Long Sand As Edian Courtauld Approached the Wind Was North East By North Force 9 With Heavy Seas the Weather Overc
Walton and Frinton: Tsunami at anchor south of Long Sand as Edian Courtauld approached. The wind was north east by north force 9, with heavy seas, the weather overcast with heavy rain squalls.
photograph by courtesy of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
THREE thousand gas-filled balloons were released from Torquay sea front with cards attached to each balloon bearing the name of someone who had paid one shilling to the Torquay branch of the Institution. Three prizes were awarded for the...
Category: Donations
Mrs R M Reed (Left) the Donor of the Cromer Life-Boat Ruby and Arthur Reed
Mrs. R. M. Reed (left), the donor of the Cromer life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed, with some of the children who won awards in the B.B.C. television programme 'Blue Peter' Life-boat Day poster competition. When Cromer held its flag day... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Brunswick
On Sunday the 25th November, intelligence was received that a large foreign barque was riding at her anchors offBeachy Head Lighthouse, in a very dangerous position, with a signal of distress flying.
With as little delay as...
Around the Fund Raising Regions
A list of branches and guilds from the Greater London and Eastern Regions GREATER LONDON RNLI 202 Lambeth Road London SE1 7JW Tel 071-928 5742 Regional Organiser, Miss A. Wilkins London Camberwell Central Chiswick and Hammersmith City...
Category: Branches
The United States Troopship Upshur
SICK MAN LANDED FROM U.S.
TROOPSHIP Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday the 21st of August, 1963, the second coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the United States troopship Upshur,...
The Garbage Lighter Gerrard
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.22 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a barge was driving towards the boom defence off Shoeburyness. At 8.50 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was...
In This Issue.
News and views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat services 8 Life at the sharp end including two Bronze Medal winning rescues The annual meetings 2001 18 Chairman Peter Nicholson reports on a year of great achievement plus...
Category: Contents
The Motor Coble Premier II
The motor coble Premier II put to sea, to lift her crab pots, in the early morning of the 11th March. Later the weather became rough, with a strong E.S.E. breeze and a heavy sea, and it was decided to launch the motor life-boat Herbert Joy...