LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe (3)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 21st of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that the beach patrol at Saltburn had seen two boys leave Salt- burn at 9.30 that morning in a small canoe. He had lost sight...
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1. By becoming an Annual Subscriber, even if the amount subscribed be small, or by giving a donation.
2. By taking charge of a collecting-box or card and endeavouring to fill it.
3. By remembering ...
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Prize Winning Essay
Miss BRIDGET MCHALE, of West Nor- folk and King's Lynn High School for Girls, King's Lynn, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution.
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A Yacht
Three snatched from wave-swept rock using boarding boat The Director of the RNLI has written to Alderney lifeboat station to congratulate coxswain Stephen Shaw and his crew on the excellent teamwork shown during a service by the...
January
JANUARY Launches 51 Lives rescued 103 JANUARY 1ST. - GALWAY BAY. The priest of the Inisheer Island was at Kilronan on Inishmore, where the Galway Bay life-boat is stationed. It was necessary that he should return to Inisheer on New Year’s...
Category: Services
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
Category: Articles
Barbara of Hopeman
On the llth March the sloop Barbara, of Hopeman, sprang a leak, and split her fore-staysail, in a heavy gale from the north. She accord- ingly ran for the sands to the eastward of Lossiemouth, when the life-boat of the In- stitution...
Can You Identify This Lifeboat, the Location, Or Even the Date?
Can you identify this lifeboat, the location, or even the date? The photos were found recently with no identifying details and the lifeboat's name cannot be read from the prints.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Friends, Provide Us and Serene (1)
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...