LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Barque Kaskelot (2)
Three lifeboats stand by sailing barque in severe weather Three lifeboats were launched in winds of up to Force 11 when the Jersey registered sailing barque Kaskelot, with 17 people aboard, reported that her anchor would not hold and that...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st July to the 30th November 1879
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBER- LAND.—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore, and considerable...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Diary
"Ship" Ha'pennies for Life-boats A LARGE tin containing a thousand ha'pennies, all with the "ship" design on one side, has been given by Mr.
Henry Broom and his daughter Betty, of Bedford,...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Listen very carefully. . . as Rene draws the lotteryGorden Kaye who stars as Rene in television's 'Allo 'Allo, drew the winning tickets of the 74th lifeboat lottery at Poole on 31 July 1996.
Brian Miles, RNLI...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
In Brief DURING 1993/94 Brian Davey, the box secretary of Frampton Cotterell branch collected an amazing £1,739.25 from collecting boxes placed in pubs, shops, railway stations and clubs.
THE 20th annual buffet dance...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
January, 1986 Walter Groombridge, who for many years was station administration officer and deputy launching authority of Brighton lifeboat station. At a ceremony in June the Newhaven, Shoreham and Brighton lifeboats gathered in Brighton for...
Category: Obituaries
Aspirant
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERIAND.—The schooner Aspirant, of Stavanger, ran into the bay, being unable to beat off the shore in a moderate E. gale, a heavy sea and thick weather, on the 22nd March. The Life-boat Robert and Susan, on her transporting...
Lt-Commander the Hon Creville Howard Vrd Rnr a Vice-President of the Rnli Nearest the Lifeboat Picture With Mrs James Penrose Daughter-In-Law of Comman
Lt-Commander The Hon. Creville Howard. VRD, RNR, a vice-president of the RNLI, nearest the lifeboat picture, with Mrs James Penrose, daughter-in-law of Commander Bernard Penrose of the Cornish Lifeboat Appeal Committee, and Commander L. F. L... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marriage Boat
After Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, were married at Uplyme Parish Church, Lyme Regis, on 8th October, 1967, the couple left...
Category: Branches
A Dinghy (8)
At 2.3 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, a visitor informed the honorary secretary that a small boy was adrift in a rubber dinghy. The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 2.25 in a gentle breeze and a slight sea. The tide was flooding....