LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rev. The Earl of Devon and Commander Sir Harry Mainwaring, Bt., R.N.V.R.
THE committee of management deeply regret the loss of two of their col- leagues, The Rev. the Earl of Devon and Commander Sir Harry Mainwaring, Bt., R.N.V.R.
The Earl of Devon, who died suddenly on 8th February, at the age...
Category: Obituaries
The American Way
Edward Wake-Walker, the RNLI's Public Relations Officer, visited the United States to look at...
Charities - the American Way The PRO'S visit to the USA was a Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and the entire costs of...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—On the 26th October, 1859, the coble Isabella, of Hartlepool, was seen in great danger off Redcar, the wind blowing a strong gale from N. by W., and a heavy sea running. The Institution's Redcar life-boat went off to...
Category: Services
Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Category: Services
Enrol a New Member and Help Shoreline to Back Up the Men Who Put to Sea Photograph By Courtesy of the Observer'
Enrol a new member, and help Shoreline to back up the men who put to sea. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of The Observer'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual Meetings for 1995, held on 18 May, took place at a new venue in London - the Barbican Centre in the City.
The move from the South Bank Centre was a break with the tradition of the past few years and...
Category: Meetings
Not Content With Just the Ordinary Duties of a Lifeboat Crew
Not content with just the ordinary duties of a lifeboat crew, the men from Salcombe have proved themselves to be as much of a fund-raising team as they are a lifesaving team. Last year, through the crew's efforts alone, £4,267 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aerial View of Ramsey Sound from the North the Bitches Can Be Seen As a Thin Line of Rocks Running Eastwards Into the Sound Off the Island of Ramsey on The
An aerial view of Ramsey Sound from the north. The Bitches can be seen as a thin line of rocks running eastwards into the sound off the island of Ramsey on the right.
Photograph by courtesy of West Air Photography.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four of the Five Survivors of the Aldeburgh Crew of 1881
The photographs were taken by Mr. S. C. F. Gooding, Honorary Treasurer of the Aldeburgh Branch.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenary of the Sheringham Station
THE life-boat station at Sheringham celebrated its centenary this year. It was established in 1838, when a private life-boat was placed there by the Hon.
Mrs. Upcher. This boat was built at Sheringham, and was named Augusta...
Category: Articles