LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Right) Between July and October Last Year Beccles and District Branch Pirate Ship 'Raided' Holidaymakers on the Norfolk Broads With Collecting Boxes and Raised (550
(Right) Between July and October last year Beccles and District branch pirate ship 'raided' holidaymakers on the Norfolk Broads with collecting boxes and raised (.550.11; this year she will be outward bound in March. Her crew are:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ireland's Eye
AGROUND IN DENSE FOG Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.47 in the morning of the 7th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a steam trawler aground near the end of the North Pier. There was a dense fog with a light westerly wind and a calm sea. The...
Shucks! We're Hillsborough's official charity
The RNLI is the official charity of this year’s Hillsborough International Oyster Festival.
Seafood lovers will gather in the Co Down town to chow down on a slippery supper, watch the World Oyster Eating Championship and...
Category: Articles
The New Plymouth Boat (Below) Like Those of Whitby and Jersey Is Is a 44' Waveney Photograph By Courtesy of Western Morning News
The new Plymouth boat (below), like those of Whitby and Jersey, is is a 44' Waveney. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Western Morning News.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pedalo Power
An eight-hour pedalo trip organised by the Aylsham and District branch, North Norfolk, raised £900 for lifeboats. Members and friends of the branch covered the 25-mile stretch along the River Bure. The sponsored event was supported by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Manchester & Salford's Appeal.
One of the 19 life-boats which went to Dunkirk at the end of May 1940, never returned. Four months later the Manchester and Salford branch launched a special appeal for £10,000 to replace this boat. It will be the 29th. life-boat...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Margate, Kent - At 7.32 p.m. on 22nd August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that cries for help had been heard in the vicinity of Longnose buoy. At 7.58 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched...
Finance In 1942.: Expenditure.
Expenditure in 1942 was £291,486. That was £12,261 more than in 1941, but much less than in a year of peace. The reason is that while in the last year of peace 16 new motor life-boats were sent to the coast, last year not one - out...
Category: Articles
The Imperial Japanese Life-Boat Institution
WE have received from the Japanese Life-boat Institution copies of its Annual Report for 1925, and of its Journal for 1925 and 1926. We shouldbe very glad, at any time, to lend these very interesting books to any Life-boat workers or...
Category: Articles
The National Fire Service Float Gladys
JANUARY 3 1 ST AND FEBRUARY 1 ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11 A.M.on the 31st of January the naval control reported that the National Fire Service float Gladys, lying half a mile west of the pier, was driving on to the sands, and at...