LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Henry Blogg of Cromer
Henry Blogg of Cromer was awarded more medals for gallantry than any other RNLI lifeboatmen: three gold and four silver. He served in Cromer crew from 1894 and was coxswain from 1909 to 1947, through two world... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (4)
Plymouth, Devon. At 11.54 on the morning of the 19th August, 1961, the coastguard look-out at Breakwater Fort informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat had capsized off Mewstone. There was a moderate north- westerly breeze...
Municipal Life Assurance Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
David M. (1)
Caiiter, and Great Yarmouth and Gorlet- ton.Norf oik.—At 7.55 in the morningof the 2nd of April, 1949, the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned to the Caister life-boat station information, received from Lloyd's agents, that the motor...
A Firefly ircraft
St. Ives, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.— At 8.53 on the evening of the 24th of January, 1955, the St. Ives coastguard rang up the St. Ives life-boat station to say that a Firefly aircraft had crashed, and that men had been seen in a rubber...
From America.
America too, is helping the British Life-boat Service. A lady in California, who had been "thrilled indeed to read of the heroic deeds of those saving lives around dear old England" sent £49. 9. A gift of £6. 13 has come...
Category: Articles
Bucklers Hard Boat Builders Ltd.,
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Category: Advertisement
Bucklers Hard Boat Builders Ltd.
B O A T B U I L D E R S The Choice of the discerning • Full Repair & Maintenance • Custom Build Facility (Power & Sail) • Mobile Crane up to 25 tons • Summer & Winter Lay-up/Storage • Chandlery • Car Parking Determining who...
Category: Advertisement
The Wife of the Life-Boat Man
THE Life-boat goes o'er the stormy sea, for a ship is in distress; The gun booms out on the water wild, and the brave men closer press; And John has gone with the other men away from our fireside warm, Out where the maddened breakers...
Category: Poetry
BROTHERS IN ARMS
On a popular Devon beach, unseasonably warm weather tempted people into the delights of the surf – and the dangers of the rip current …
While many families spent the afternoon carving Halloween pumpkins on 31 October 2015,...
Category: Articles