LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The fishing-boats went out at 7.30 A.M., on the 12th February, and at about 10 o'clock were compelled to return, a very heavy sea having sprung up. Four of the boats were assisted by the Life-boat Meliscent,...

The schooner Laura Griffith,bound from Port- madoc to Sunderland with a cargo of slates, was observed at anchor in a dangerous position near the Tuns Bank on the 5th October. As the weather was very threatening and the sea heavy, the...

SHERINGHAM.—The Life-boat William Bennett was launched at 3 P.M. on the 7th March and proceeded to the aid of the fishing-boats, which had been overtaken by a moderate gale from. E.N.E. and a heavy sea. All the boats got safely in with one...

DURING the winter Captain G. C.

Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., a member of the Committee of Manage- ment, has visited the principal Sea Training Ships for boys and given lectures, illustrated with films or slides, on the...

MR. MORRIS LYNDON NICHOLLS, who has been the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Fishguard since 1916, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours, in recognition of his life- boat work. In...

Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...

20 May 1999 - A major engineering feat, the completion of the new pierhead lifeboat station and slipway at Cromer, was celebrated inside the boathouse with the help of the Bishop of Norwich, the Very Reverend Peter Nott, RNLI Deputy Chairman... - View image in PDF

The lue-boat calendar for 1942 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting ot life-boats of the Institution helping to bring off men of the B.E.F. from the beaches of Dunkirk. The calendar costs a l/-...