LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Robert (Bob) Shears,
Robert (Bob) Shears, deputy launching authority of Newbiggin lifeboat station. He was also former second mechanic and senior helmsman..
Category: Obituaries
Talahinna
Night tow AT 2033 on Sunday October 21, 1984, the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station was contacted by Falmouth Coastguard and told that a yacht, Talahinna, had reported engine and rigging failure, some five to ten miles north...
A French Schooner Goeland
On the 17th September the French schooner Goeland, of Paimpol, was in distress in a strong gale, with a very heavy sea, and the motor life-boat Prince David rescued the crew of six.—Rewards, silver medal, bronze medals, thanks of the...
The New Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER DRURY has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., inspector of life-boats for the Eastern district.
Commander Vaux was educated at the Rojral Naval Colleges of...
Category: Articles
150th Anniversaries of Life-Boat Stations
GUERNSEY Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, Secretary of the Institution, presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of a life-boat station at Guernsey, to Sir Thomas Elmhirst, Lieutenant-Governor and...
Category: Articles
(Above) at Penlee Autumn Fay Re Nick and Sue Leslie Twin Daughters of Dr D W L Leslie Chairman of the Branch Kept Up a Brisk Trade In Shoreline Membership An
(Above) At Penlee autumn fay re, Nick and Sue Leslie, twin daughters of Dr D. W. L. Leslie, chairman of the branch, kept up a brisk trade in Shoreline membership and raffle tickets. Dr Leslie gives up all his spare time to the RNLI and his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Life-Boats
SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. — The Life- Boat stationed by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION many years since at Sheringham has been replaced by a new one, of the " Liverpool" type, 41 feet long and 11 feet wide, fitted to row 16...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S Hawkwood
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
A Small Boat
Swanage, Dorset.—On the morning of the 13th July a visitor set out from Boscombe in a small boat with theobject of rowing to Swanage. He had no knowledge of the tides and got into difficulties. At 3.20 P.M. he was seen by the Swanage...
Two Life-Boat Families. The Wiggs, of Kessingland, and the Stone-Houses, of Teesmouth and Redcar
THE Institution, at the end of last year, awarded a special Vellum to Mr.
Edward Wigg, sen., of Kessingland, in recognition of the exceptional services which he and his family have rendered to the Life-boat Service. He...
Category: Articles