LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boy Jim
On the morning of the 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a small motor fishing boat, south of Gorleston pier, was driving ashore and making distress signals. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
HM The Queen honours RNLI eight
Commitment to fundraising, education and innovation has earned eight RNLI volunteers a place on the 2015 Queen’s New Year Honours list.
Included in the group is Captain Hugh Fogarty (pictured above), whose 30-year career...
Category: Articles
Last Autumn Jeff Needham (R) a Member of the Fund Raising Committee Presented a Plaque to Ron Ride a Member of the River Thames Branch and Also of Shor
Last autumn Jeff Needham (r.), a member of the Fund Raising Committee, presented a plaque to Ron Ride, a member of the River Thames branch and also of Shoreline, who has raised more than £1,400 on his premises in three... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
San Remo Requests. . .
The city of San Remo, Italy, is to award a Figurehead of Courage annually to the seaman whose tech- nical and human skill in an action at sea shows the sea-faring spirit at its greatest.
The period to be considered for the...
Category: Awards
American Gold Medal for the Institution
THE Institution has been awarded the " Gold Life-saving Medal of Honor " of the United States of America, which was personally presented on 25th June by Commander C. D. Hinckley, of the U.S.
Coast Guard, who had...
Category: Awards
Lifeboat Services
D CLASS VEERED DOWN IN CONFUSED SEAS Family of five snatched to safety from base of cliff on rising tide A service by Little and Broad Haven's D class on 23 September 1995 to a family stranded at the base of a cliff on a rising tide has...
Category: Services
Lady Norton Mbe,
December 1996 Lady Norton MBE, a life vice president of the Institution. Lady Norton was elected to the committee of management in 1975 and served as a member of the fundraising committee from 1975 to 1985. In 1982 Lady Norton was appointed...
Category: Obituaries
Letters
in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat, we reported on the opening of The Lifeboat College in Pooie, Dorset. We described some of the facilities and equipment available on this unique site and talked to some of those who are to benefit...
Category: Correspondence
Mild and Bitter
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 6.28 on the evening of the 24th of March, 1959, the police were informed that the sailing dinghy Mild and Bitter had capsized in the bay and that two people were in the water. The honorary secretary and...
Fishing Luggers - Alexander, of Yarmouth & Musselburgh, of Lowstoft
During a heavy snow squall on the evening of the 7th December the fishing-luggers Alexander, of Yarmouth, and Musselburgh, of Lowestoft, came ashore on the beach south of the harbour of Lowestoft. The crew of the^ first-named vessel were...