LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia (2)
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Some Ways of Raising Money
An analysis of the first total raised by Queensferry ladies' guild in the year 1981/82 makes interesting reading. Of the total £1,800, well over £100 was made from each of the following events; a country dance, a cheese and...
Category: Articles
Deal Doctor Honoured
DR JAMES HALL of Deal has made many trips by life-boat to ships in the Channel when a seaman has needed urgent attention. He has often gone out in heavy weather to perform operations in the most difficult conditions.
During...
Category: Awards
The Fisheries Exhibition
IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...
Category: Articles
(Rightl ... a Far Cry from That Day In October Last Year
(Rightl ... a far cry from that day in October last year when the couple and their cousin were snatched to safety in Storm Force winds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ten Years After. The Pilgrimage to Dunkirk, 4th June, 1950
The Pilgrimage to Dunkirk, 4th June, 1950. By Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R.
THE Margate life-boat Lord South- borough glided down the slipway at eleven in the morning on Saturday, the 3rd of June, to repeat,...
Category: Articles
MORE LIFEGUARDED BEACHES THAN EVER
If you’re heading to the seaside in the UK or Channel Islands this Summer, the chances are there’s a beach patrolled by RNLI lifeguards near you. This year our lifeguards will be on hand at more beaches than ever – they now patrol 238. ...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 11th January, 1918.
SIR GODFREY BABING, BART., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Bead and confirmed the minutes of the Building,...
Category: Committee
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
6 SKERRIES | PAGE 10
7 PORTRUSH | PAGE...
Category: Articles
(Left) Port Bow View of 30' Self-Righting Pulling Lifeboat Built By T and Iv Forrestt and Son for the Us Life Saving Service and Now In the Mariners Museum Newport N
(Left) Port bow view of 30' self-righting pulling lifeboat built by T. and IV. Forrestt and Son for the US Life Saving Service and now in The Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, USA.
photograph by courtesy of The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs