LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four of the Five Survivors of the Aldeburgh Crew of 1881
The photographs were taken by Mr. S. C. F. Gooding, Honorary Treasurer of the Aldeburgh Branch.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Three Bronze Medallists
Second Coxswain Fatten Funswick , Coxswain Tote (Runiwick), and Coxswain Payne (Newhaven).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
HER MAJESTY Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Patron of the Institution, will be the guest of honour at this year's annual presentation of awards meeting on May 15. She will address the meeting and present the awards for gallantry and...
Category: Articles
Letters
ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SLAYTER • I would like to amplify the very brief obituary which appeared in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 124). Bill Slayter, who had a very distinguished career in the Navy in both world wars, was a most...
Category: Correspondence
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a new Life-boat es- tablishment at Johnshaven, near Montrose, for the service of fishing-boats which are frequently placed in imminent peril when...
Category: Articles
Collapse of An Oil Rig
ON Monday, 2yth December, 1965—Boxing Day—a great many people were appalled on hearing the news of a disaster which had overtaken the oil rig Sea Gem which collapsed and sank in the North Sea. The oil rig, which belonged to the British...
Category: Services
The Late Mr. E. W. Cooke, R.A., F.R.S.
We lament to record the death, on the 4th January last, of this distinguished marine artist and Member of the Royal Academy.
By Mr. Cooke's death the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION . has lost one of its oldest friends....
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Margo
MARCH 8TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 2.28 P.M. the coastguard called for the life-boat to go out to a steamer to bring off some wounded men. A N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched...
No ordinary Jo
She made a comedy career from pouring scorn, but when it comes to the sea and those who rescue people from it, Jo Brand is positively gushing
It’s Jo Brand’s turn to jump in. She grabs her...
Category: Articles
Lt-Col D R R Storrie
Lt-Col D. R. R. Storrie, commanding officer of the Royal Marines, Hamworthy, Poole, reaches deep into the new large lottery drum to pick out a winning ticket. Fred Williams (I), appeals office supervisor, who has spun the drum for every one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs