LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Cromer's Famous Son
Cromer's famous son Henry Blogg is the most decorated RNLI crew member of all time. What kind of man was this lifeboating legend, and what did he do to earn such accolades? Henry Blogg's time as a crew member and coxswain was an...
Category: Articles
Douglas Lifeboat Sir William Hillary
The Third Coxswain of the by now soap-free Douglas lifeboat Sir William Hillary is put aboard Martlet fo connect the tow.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
International Call...
The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, reports from the International Lifeboat Conference in UruguayA hundred or so delegates from 26 different countries gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the 17th International...
Category: Meetings
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Sep 24,25, Oct25,Dec 12,13,26 D-536:Sep 9,24,25,30, Dec 12,l3,24,26(x2) ABERDOVEY B-758:Sep 2,Oct 3 ABERSOCH B-790:Sep2,3,13 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Sep 9,17,27,Oct 3,16,27, Nov 13,Dec21 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28):Oct 9...
Category: Services
Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, E.G., R.N.
FROM the moment that Her Majesty's fine frigate the Galatea* left our shores in the spring of last year, under the command of the youthful Duke of Edinburgh, to visit our colonies in the southern hemisphere, and to convey to them in...
Category: Articles
The Cork Waist Life-Belt
N the 22nd number of this Journal we described these life-belts, with which all the life-boat crews in connexion with the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are provided, and which they are required to wear on every occasion of their going...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Zor
On the 18th-19th of May, 1955, the Wells and Sheringham life-boats be- tween them rescued nine men from the S.S. Zor. For a full account of these services, for which the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Coxswain...
The S.S. Zor (1)
On the 18th-19th of May, 1955, the Wells and Sheringham life-boats be- tween them rescued nine men from the S.S. Zor. For a full account of these services, for which the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Coxswain...
Mr Michael Constable of Bridlington Yorkshire Who Is Chief Engineer of the MV Rangitoto Has Turned His Hobby of Lapidary—Collecting Stones and Pebbles—Into Profit For
Mr. Michael Constable, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who is chief engineer of the m.v. Rangitoto, has turned his hobby of lapidary—collecting stones and pebbles—into profit for the R.N.L.I. During voyages he polishes stones and pebbles to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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