LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
Category: Articles
Feature: Going for Gold
Not only is The Lifeboat College a centre of excellence for lifeboat crews and staff - it provides a base for other organisations to learn about the RNLI's work. Regional Education Officer Dave Cooling looks back on a lively week when 14...
Category: Articles
Sea-Coroner Suggested
An attentive consideration of the wreck chart appended to the Northumberland Report, and a careful examination of the returns of wrecks by the Coast-Guard officers, forcibly impresses on the mind the painful conviction that the greater part...
Category: Articles
Launching Ceremonies of New Motor Life-Boats
Scarborough, Bomber (Spurn Point), Hartlepool, Selsey and Bognor, Sennen Cove, New Brighton.
DURING the summer of this year the launching ceremonies have taken place of six Motor Life-boats.
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Film men rescued BRONZE MEDAL FILMING OF A STUNT for the latest James Bond film at Beachy Head, East Sussex, on Tuesday, December 9, 1986, took a dramatic turn when a 17ft outboard-powered Dory, recovering equipment from...
Category: Services
Cymric
The auxiliary schooner Cymric, of Dublin, grounded on Wexford bar on the 24th December, while bound, with a cargo of grain and a crew of six, from Wexford to Dublin. She remained fast. On the 28th a whole E. by N. gale was blowing, with a...
Richard Oakley, MBE, MRINA
A new tvpe of lifeboat, known as the Oakley tvpe, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (73)
MAY 20TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At about 7.50 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea south of Ramsey Island, and the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 8.19 P.M. and...
An Anson Aeroplane (1)
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
John and Eliza, and Sarah
HOLTHEAD.—About 10 A.M. on the 3rd January the smack John and Eliza wasobserved in a dangerous position on a lee shore, and surrounded by broken water.
It was at the time blowing a gale from E.S.E. The Life-boat Thomas...