LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Five Medallists Arrive at Tower Pier for a 'Photocall' on the Morning of the Presentation of Awards With Hms Belfast Providing the Backdrop
The five medallists arrive at Tower Pier for a 'photocall' on the morning of the presentation of awards, with HMS Belfast providing the backdrop.
They are (from left to right) Shane Coleman (Second Coxswain/Mechanic... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grave Omission:
Grave omission: when he died in 1904 Henry Freeman, coxswain of Whitby lifeboat who had helped save over 300 lives was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. Four boys from Whitby School considered it was high lime the town honoured one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Northgate
Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 28th of January, 1949, there was dense fog, but the weather was calm, and at 5.10 the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Northgate, of Hull, was ashore close to the life-boat...
The Bull Light-Vessel
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.45 P.M. on the same day, the 21st October, 1937, the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was again launched, as the life-boat watchman reported that two maroons had been fired in the direction of the Bull...
Camorant
Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.4 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain super- intendent that the cabin cruiser Camorant of Hull had broken down three miles north of Withernsea. The life-boat City of Bradford...
Prince Ivanhoe (2)
Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
Back In Business—Hunstanton Closed 1931: Re-Opened 1979 By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
AT INTERVALS around our coasts stand solid, stone buildings with arched doorways facing the sea, many now with moss on their tiled roofs, weeds in the gutters and rust on the runners for the massive wooden doors. They are old lifeboathouses,...
Category: Articles
Contents
The Winterl990/91 Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 514 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
Category: Contents
Arosette
Newhaven: At 2003 on Monday July 3 HM Coastguard informed Newhaven lifeboat station that the German coaster Arosette, two miles south of Beachy Head, had broadcast a 'mayday' calling for immediate help. Newhaven's 44ft Waveney...
Naming Ceremonies
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, named two new life-boats in 1954. These life- boats, The Duchess of Kent and Edian Courtauld, are now on service at Fraserburgh and at Walton and Frinton.
Ten new...
Category: Inaugurations