LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain James Gall of Broughty Ferry. He was appointed coxswain in December 1959, after the disaster in which the whole of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat were lost. He did in fact first join the...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st August to 31st October, 1935
1st August to 31st October, 1935.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive, with address by the assistant district organizing secretary.
HAYES.—Annual meeting on 31st October. Speaker :...
Category: Branches
An Aeroplane (109)
AUGUST 29TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported in distress 30 miles east of Cromer, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless as news had been received that the aeroplane was safe. - Rewards, £5 16s....
The Steamers Mari, of Tallinn, and the Mrav, of Susak
Dover and Hythe, Kent.—29th April.
The steamers Mari, of Tallinn, Esthonia and the Mrav, of Susak, Yugoslavia, came into collision off Folkestone.
The Mrav foundered. Some of her crew were saved by the...
The S.S. Muristan
In the meantime tragic occurrences were taking place at Blyth. The s.s. Muristan, a steel steamer belonging to Swansea, while bound from the Tyne to Rouen, ran ashore in Blyth Bay.
On the night of the 18th her steeringgear...
Life-Boat Call In the Pentland
[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....
Category: Services
Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the RNLI Seen on the Occasion of His Visit to Flamborough In December
Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the RNLI, seen on the occasion of his visit to Flamborough in December. The retiring coxswain of the Flamborough life-boat, Dick Cowling, is on the left of the picture. Albert Duke, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishing Trawler Fairway
Trawler broken down A FISHING TRAWLER, Fairway, broken down and drifting towards shore about eight miles south of Lyme Regis was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0032 on Saturday December 2, 1978. The...
Jubilee of the Walton and Frinton Station
THE life-boat station at Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton, Essex, celebrated its jubilee with a dinner on 17th November. Fifty years before, almost to a day, on 18th November, 1884, the inaugural ceremony was held of the first* Walton...
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The RNLI and me: Julian Fellowes
The multi-award winning creator of Downton Abbey tells us about visiting a lifeboat station and imagines it as a setting for a new drama
WHO IS JULIAN FELLOWES?
Julian Fellowes is a novelist, Conservative peer,...
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