LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI In Action
RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Month of mudness Helmsman ‘Tommo’Thompson and crew from Exmouth, Devon, rescued two 14-year-olds...
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Fortieth Anniversary of the Service to the "Eider."
ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
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Below: the Royal British Legion Jubilee As She Left the Thames After the Ceremony Passing the Houses of Parliament
Below: The Royal British Legion Jubilee, as she left the Thames after the ceremony, passing the Houses of Parliament.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (13)
APRIL 16TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.
- Permanent paid crew..
An Aeroplane (90)
DECEMBER 19TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. Later a body was washed ashore. A letter of thanks was received from Air Commodore of the R.A.F....
An Inn Sign
This is the new sign of The Life-boat Inn at Brancaster, Norfolk, and has been painted from the picture, by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the Cromer service to the barge Sepoy in December, 1933. It is reproduced by courtesyLof the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (117)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At about 3.30 P.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about two hundred yards west of the Hook Beacon. A light S.S.E. wind was...
An Aeroplane (164)
OCTOBER 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down off the Lincolnshire coast, but neither the lifeboat nor aeroplanes could find anything. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 4s. 6d..
Chairman Praises All for Their Efforts
CAPTAIN the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, told the annual meeting of the In- stitution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 2ist March, 1967, that, in spite of efforts all round, receipts did not meet...
Category: Meetings
Honey Bee
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.40 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Honey Bee of Peterhead was leaking badly and in danger of sinking off Buchan Ness. At...