LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 22 AN OUTSTANDING DAY: THE CROWN OF A MEMORABLE YEAR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE from all parts of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and, indeed, from many other parts of the world, came to the Royal Festival...
Category: Meetings
Naming Ceremonies: Two Station Lifeboats at Mallaig and Aldeburgh; Relief Lifeboat at Poole; and the Prototype Tyne Class Lifeboat In the City of London
Mallaig, Inverness-shire EARLIER BAD WEATHER on Saturday September 11, 1982, gave way to a bright sunny morning at the attractive west coast of Scotland harbour of Mallaig as preparations were made for the naming of the station's new...
Category: Inaugurations
Past and Present
75 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT May 1916 Life-boat crews on the Yorkshire Coast From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Lifeboats, but to draw volunteers as required...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
North Eastern Division Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday,...
Category: Services
Water Gipsy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.27 in the afternoon, on the 17th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, making heavy weather, had lowered her sail and hoisted a flag. So, at 12. .5 the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was launched in...
Blue Peter
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.43 on the afternoon of the 18th of June 1954, a message was received from the coastguard that a tanker had reported a yacht apparently broken down off Nore Towers. At 4.5 the life-boat The Lord Southborough,...
The Annual Meetings 2002
2002 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Another busy year for the RNLI saw crews answer 6,882 calls and rescue 6,918 people.
Education and safety work is starting to show results and successful trial schemes...
Category: Meetings
Letters
Fraserburgh lifeboat My son Jim and I were two of the people rescued by Fraserburgh lifeboat last summer when the yacht Blanche got into trouble in a force 8 gale. We were most impressed by both the efficiency and humanity of the coxswain...
Category: Correspondence