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Armistice Day, 1928

Date: June 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 298

Armistice Day last year was celebrated by the Life-boat Crew at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston in the same way as during the previous two years.

The Crew, headed by the Coxswain and Second Coxswain, each bearing a wreath,...

Category: Articles

Twenty Best Branches: A Correction

Date: June 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 306

In the last issue of The Lifeboat, in the article on the twenty Branches with the highest collections in the year 1929- 30, Clacton-on-Sea was given, as having been sixteenth in the previous year, but as having fallen out of the first...

Category: Branches

Small Fishing Boats

Date: August 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 221

Whilst the small fishing-boats were returning from the fishing-grounds on the 9th January, the sea became so heavy at the mouth of the harbour that the Life-boat TheopMlm Sidney Eclialaz was launched to stand by and assist the boats. The sea...

Severn

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

The Severn is the largest of the fleet and is designed to lie afloat.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Dragon

Date: August 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 201

DUNGENESS.—The Coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.B., being informed by the Coastguard on the morning of the 8th January that a steamer was stranded, the crew were summoned and at 5.30 the * Life-boat was launched.

The wind...

Queen Victoria, of South Shields

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

On the 3rd De- cember, during a strong N.E. gale, the brig Queen Victoria, of South Shields, was totally wrecked on the Barnard Sand. The life-boat put off, and succeeded in saving one of the crew from the rigging. The remainder, 7 in number...

A Vellum for Southend-On-Sea.

Date: March 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 11

Coxswain Sydney Page, of Southend-on-Sea, has won the thanks of the Institution on vellum for rescuing the crew of a yacht which had gone aground on a sandbank in the Thames estuary in a gale. The night was very dark, with mist; the tide was...

Category: Articles

Lothian

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

Shortly after midnight on the 1st December the crew of the Lifa-boat Foster Fawcett were assembled in answer to signals from a vessel to the south of the Point. The boat was promptly launched and found the steam trawler Lothian, of Granton,...

Oliver Warner

Date: Summer 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 457

Oliver Warner, the distinguished naval historian who was the author of The Life-boat Service, a history of the RNLI from 1824-1974, written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Institution..

Category: Obituaries

Grand Unveiling

Date: Winter 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 575

For the RNLI, the London Boat Show 2006 in January was the chance to show the world the newTamar class of lifeboat, to recruit new supporters and to unveil the Institution's groundbreaking. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs