LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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 — The Life- Boat stationed by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION many years since at Sheringham has been replaced by a new one, of the " Liverpool" type, 41 feet long and 11 feet wide, fitted to row 16...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
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1931
Presentation of Prizes in the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 15th July, the Mayor of Westminster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of the...
Category: Articles
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Lerwick - Scotland Division Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles, lies in the midst of one of the world's wildest and most unfriendly waters - severe gales can be expected...
Category: Articles
Noel and Progress
Early in the morning of the llth March several fishing boats went to sea, and all except two returned before low water. Th wind had freshened considerably from the east, and there was a lot of sea on Whitby Rock, which would sweep up the...
A Large Brig
The Ramsgate life-boat has been so frequently off to the Goodwin Sands, towed by the harbour tug, in reply to night signals of distress from the floating light-vessels moored off those fatal shoals, that we cannot attempt to describe...
Life-Boat Conferences
North Eastern and Irish Free State Districts.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in the North Eastern District was held at Bridlington on 18th September last. Representatives from thirty-six Branches and Guilds were present...
Category: Meetings
Letters
Where is your hat?! I have been an RNLI Shoreline member for around 24 years.
I joined after chatting to a lifeboat crew member whilst on holiday in North Wales. He told me of an incident where a young boy had got into...
Category: Correspondence
Your Letters
Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.
Several hundred...
Category: Correspondence
Florentine
WAS IN DISTRESS May, Argyllshire. At 7.38 p.m. on l6th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the British ship Hebrides had reported a weak radio distress call giving a position south of Mull. This was soon confirmed...