LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3.9 in the afternoon of the 17th of March, 1949, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the Great Yarmouth steam trawler^won, half a mile off the harbour, had asked for a boat to...
Lillian
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER NEAR ROCKS Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 1.32 on the afternoon of the 17th October, 1962, the coastguard reported that a small cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down half a mile south of Boddam, and at 1.45 the...
Isallt
FIVE LIVES LOST Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.35 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the Coast Life Saving Service reported a vessel in distress off Bally- money, Co. Wexford, about ten miles by sea from Arklow, and the motor life-boat...
Cave Pic: View of the Cave at Perranporth, Where the Surfers Were Stuck
Cave pic: View of the cave at Perranporth, where the surfers were stuck. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golf Competitions
AN appeal was again made, at the beginning of 1935, to the principal Golf Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland, asking them to hold competitions in aid of the life-boat service, for which the Institution would give silver and enamel spoons. As...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain H. O. Thomas of Torbay. He became assistant motor mechanic of the Torbay life-boat in February 1941 and ten years later was appointed coxswain. He was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
Category: Articles
Darts Debut
Dart, the RNLI’s newest lifeboat station, had its first shout on 24 November 2007.
Relief D class lifeboat Bob Savage and her crew were called out to recover a young man who had been thrown from his speedboat after hitting...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (2)
Margate, Kent.—2nd June, 1938. A signal had been hoisted by the Girdler Lightvessel, but the life-boat found that it was to announce firing practice.
She then searched for a missing yacht, but could not find her. The yacht...
Still Grateful After Eighteen Years
Ix September, 1934, a life-boat rescued two men who were seen clinging to a capsized boat. When she reached them they were completely exhausted.
A few days later they made a gift to the station. Not long afterwards one of...
Category: Donations
The Eastbourne Lifeboat Jane Holland
The Eastbourne lifeboat Jane Hollandwas one of several RNLI boats involved in the Dunkirk evacuation. She was later found, adrift and badly damaged, and is pictured under repair. Mark Child of Collectors' Books would like to locate more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs