LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Vulcan
At 9. A.M. on the 25th March during a strong W.
gale, with very heavy sea, a vessel was observed in difficulties about two miles from the middle Hasborough Sands, and soon after she was blown within half a mile of the sands...
The Patrol Boat Havoernen of the Royal Danish Navy (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...
The Help of Theatres and Cinemas
IN The, Lifeboat for last February an account was given of the help received from cinemas during the display of two films, " Down to the Sea in Ships " and " Women Who Give," which had Life-boat interest. These films were...
Category: Articles
More Than 150 Services of Thanksgiving Have Been Held Around Britain and Ireland In Norwich Cathedral the Rnli Standard Is Carried to the Altar Photograph By Court
More than 150 services of thanksgiving have been held around Britain and Ireland. In Norwich Cathedral the RNLI standard is carried to the altar. Photograph by Courtesy of Eastern Daily Press. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Horsa
ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLANDS.—A message was received by telephone from the coastguard station at St. Martin's, reporting that a full-rigged ship was ashore, at about 10.30 on the morning of the 4th April. The Life-boat Henry Dundas was...
Trouble on the Trap
The following account by Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N.(Retd. editor ofMotor Boat and Yachting, appeared in the edition for i8th September, 1964, and is reproduced with his kind permission. He is a former member of the Longhope life-boat crew...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
'-On the 8th of April the brigantine Cebufg, of Whitby , ran ashore in an E.S.E. gale near Bridlington Quay.
The Bridlington life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was immediately launched, and...
Category: Services
The Death of Two Vice-Presidents. The Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., and the Right Hon, the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G., P.C.
The Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., and the Right Hon. the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G., P.C.
BY the death of the Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., on 20th July last, and the death of the Right...
Category: Obituaries
When the Mayor of Poole Councillor J M Norman Performed the Opening Ceremony of the Rnli Depot at Poole on May 27 the Institution Was Also Entertaining Visito
When the Mayor of Poole, Councillor J. M. Norman, performed the opening ceremony of the RNLI depot at Poole on May 27, the Institution was also entertaining visitors from La Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer. (I. to r.) John Atterton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Original Cartoon By Mac of the Daily Mail Was One of the Lots at Truro Branch's Celebrity Auction at New Tregye Hotel Carnon Downs Last September Some 200 Let
An original cartoon by Mac of the Daily Mail was one of the lots at Truro branch's celebrity auction at New Tregye Hotel, Carnon Downs, last September, Some 200 letters written to famous people resulted in 84 buttons for auction. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs