LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sir Alec Rose
Sir Alec Rose serving his guests at a cheese and wine party which he and Lady Rose held at their home in Havant during the summer in aid of the RNLI. A total of £470 was raised.
Paying tribute to all supporters of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI’s Headquarters In Poole, Dorset
Open house The RNLI’s Headquarters in Poole, Dorset, is opening to the public on 21 and 22 July 2007.
This is a golden opportunity to see behind the scenes at The Lifeboat College, tour the different classes of lifeboat,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Medal for a Shore-Boat Case
ON 30th May, at Whitby, five boys, from eight to seventeen years of age, were coming into the harbour, just before seven in the evening, in a small pleasure boat. There was a light breeze blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a swell...
Category: Medals
Life-Boat Work In France
FROM time to time special attention has been drawn in the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL to the excellent work in life-saving done by means of Life-boats, etc., connected with the Life-boat services on the Continent and elsewhere, all of which have come...
Category: Articles
Sir George Shee: An Appreciation
THE Royal National Life-boat Institu- tion has had only four secretaries during the 107 years of its existence. The first was Thomas Edwards, who served from 1824 to 1850. Richafd Lewis (1850 to 1883) and Charles Dibdin (1883 to 1910) were...
Category: Articles
Esmerelda
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 18th February, the fishing smack Esmerdlda, of Grimsby, was, owing to there being no wind and a very strong sea, driven helplessly towards the shore a little to the N. of Cay ton Bay.
Her signal of...
Glenbervie
COVBBACK, CORNWALL.—The first service at this Life-boat station, which was established in the year 1901, was performed on the 13th January last. The barque Glenbervie, of Glasgow, bound from London for Algoa Bay, with a general cargo,...
Stormalong
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.37 oil the morning of the 18th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was burning a flare near West Shoebury Buoy. At 6.10 the life- boat Greater London II, Civil Service No. 30, which had been...
A Steam Trawler Strathlethen
On the 29th December, 1933, the steam trawler Strathkthen, of Aberdeen, had her steering gear carried away while she was making for the harbour on her return from the fishing grounds. She became unman- ageable, and was thrown by a heavy sea...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 14th August the coxswain was told that some people were in danger of drowning in Thornwick Bay. about two miles north of Flamborough Head. The wind was only light, from the north, but a very...