LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alice
During a moderate southerly gale on the 25th April the chief officer of Coastguard reported that a vessel was in the West Bay dismasted and in need of help.
The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Thomas Simcox were at once...
Notes of the Quarter
IN 1958, for the third year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total number of launches was 714, or two fewer than the figure for 1957. Before 1956 there were only two years in which lifeboats were...
Category: Articles
Lt-Commander Harold Harvey Divisional Inspector: 'The Responsibility of An Admiral and the Authority of a Midshipman'
Ll'.-Commander Harold Harvey, divisional inspector: 'the responsibility of an admiral and the authority of a midshipman'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt t'l are — ; ft- .-,:r X. 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., 1...
Category: Articles
Long-Standing Supporters of the RNLI
THIS is the third feature describing companies which have given the R.N.L.I.
valuable financial support over a number of years.
9 Colvilles Ltd., of Glasgow, which is now the Colvilles Division of the...
Category: Donations
The Service Boards of Rye Harbour
Ox Sunday the 27th of July. 1952, a service was held in the Church of the Holy Spirit, at Rye Harbour, to cele- brate the centenary of the first record- ed rescue, in August 1852, by the Rye Harbour life-boat, known at first as the...
Category: Articles
Lists of Contributors to the Branches of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Branches
The Motor Sprat Boat Terry
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.8 P.M. on the 1st November, 1937, the coastguard reported that a motor sprat boat was in distress off Pakefield.
She was the Terry, of Lowestoft, homeward bound laden with sprats and carrying a crew...
A Dinghy from an Aeroplane
APRIL 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 3.35 A.M. information was received from the R.A.F. at Coltishall that an aeroplane had crashed about four miles N.N.W. of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at...
Johanna Te Velde
Sheringham, Norfolk. — Just before nine o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1950, a local resident informed the life-boat honorary sec- retary that a ship was making morse signals three-quarters of a mile east- north-east of...