LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birthday Honours
AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were be- stowed in the Birthday Honours list were: G.B.E. Alderman C. J. Harman, Lord Mayor of the City of London, ex officio member of the Committee of Man-...
Category: Awards
Lifeboat Open Days 1984 Poole
Poole Headquarters and Depot Thursday July 19 Friday July 20 Saturday July 21 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm FOR ITS 160th anniversary year, the RNLFs head office and depot will once again be open to the public and there will be an...
Category: Articles
Above and beyond
The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp
Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....
Category: Articles
Star-studded postcard sale raises £3,000
An auction of anonymous postcard-sized artwork raised over £3,000 for the RNLI at the Margate Harbour Arm gallery on 11 September.
Celebrities, professional artists and amateurs contributed to the 100 pieces up for...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler 677
OCTOBER 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 4 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth asked that the life-boat should take out a doctor to H.M. Trawler 677, which was two miles N.E. of Sheringham.
A...
Open Boats
KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—At 11.30 P.M.
on the llth December it was reported that some fishermen were in danger on board a wreck on the North Bull Sands. It appeared that a number of open boats were fishing near the spot when a...
Annie Christian
WATCHET, SOMERSETSHIRE. — In a strong N.N.W. gale and very heavy sea on the 16th January, the ketch Annie Christian, of Liverpool, got into difficulties off Watchet while bound from Ely with a cargo of coal. The vessel had been at anchor,...
Thomas M.
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.23 A.M.
on the 18th February, 1938, a message was received from East Pier that a vessel was aground near Quern Buoy.
She was the motor vessel Thomas M., of London, bound with a...
Our Betty
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a fishing boat had broken down one mile west of Sandgate. She was flying a shirt on an oar as a distress signal.
At...
Brownie
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. — About 8.45 on the morning of the 13th of September, 1950, the life-boat coxswain saw a motor launch apparently in difficulties about a third of a mile west-south-west of the Gimblet Rock.
She...