LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Friendship, Black Beauty and English Rose
Cromer, Norfolk. At 2.53 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, on the advice of the coxswain of the no. 1 life-boat, the no. 2 life-boat Harriot Dixon was launched on an ebbing tide to go to the help of the crab boats which were hauling...
Fishguard and Goodwick Guild Member Mary Shae
Following the announcement that halfpenny pieces were to be phased out, Fishguard and Goodwick guild member Mary Shaw launched a scheme to collect the coins for the RNL1 through the local press. Sealed containers were soon to be seen... - View image in PDF
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Ben Henshaw and the S.S. Saint Oran
Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...
Efficient Aid of Coast Guard
In looking over the list of wrecks, no one can fail to be struck at the prominent position occupied by the officers and men of the Coast-Guard Service on all such occasions.
The records of the National Shipwreck Insti-...
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
100 Years Ago The following three items were first published in the journals of February. Mav and Aueust. 1885.CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, during a gale of wind from the W., a schooner was seen...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, THURSDAY MAY 22 'The RNLI . . . the finest club in the country . . .' MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE gathered at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames on Thursday May 22 for the...
Category: Meetings
A Steamer (6)
24th February. A steamer sent out an SOS, but cancelled it after the life- boats had left. The chief inspector of life-boats and the district inspector of life-boats were on board the Teesmouth life-boat. The life-boat crews at Runswick,...
The Services of Old Age. Workers of 85 and 95 Years
Workers of 85 and 95 years.
IT is no very uncommon thing to find Life-boatmen able to continue on active service until they have passed the three score years and ten ; but it is not only in the Life-boats that old age...
Category: Articles
At the Sharp End
The Lifeboat C class inflatable Operational Number C518 The Crew Thanks on Vellum: Helmsman Jeremy Thomas Crew Member Leonard Walters Lifeguard Simon Jury Vellum Service Certificates Andrew Walters Michael FaulknerC classjj-Iu_cksjthreejto...
Category: Services
Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatables Are Built at Cowes Base and Also Undergo Survey Maintenance and Repair In the Base's Workshop
Atlantic 21 rigid inflatables are built at Cowes Base and also undergo survey, maintenance and repair in the base's workshop. (Photo Bob Kennovin). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs