LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Right Hon. Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., at Cromer. Naming Ceremony of Two Life-Boats
THE two new motor life-boats stationed at Cromer in 1934 and 1935 were named this year by the Right Hon.
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.R, Secretary of State for Home Affairs.
The...
Category: Inaugurations
H.R.H. The Duchess of York at Arbroath
Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-boat.
ON 31st August, H.R.H. The Duchess of York named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Arbroath (Angus).
This Life-boat, which has replaced a Pulling and...
Category: Inaugurations
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
St. Helier, Jersey. — On the 17th May the sailing boat Seafarer had put out with three people on board. On the following day, as she had not returned, it was decided to make a search. Mr. J. Langlois lent...
Category: Services
Building Up to the Millennium
Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
Category: Articles
A Bronze Medal Service at Holyhead
ON the night of the 25th of October, 1949, a whole northerly gale was blow- ing at Holyhead with violent squalls at forty and fifty miles an hour. The sea was very rough; the night dark with heavy squalls of rain.
A small...
Category: Services
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Man clinging to cliff A MAN CUT OFF by the tide at Saltwick Nab was reported to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by the Coastguard at 1805 on Friday, July 25, 1975. It was high water and in normal circumstances, with a...
Back In Business—Hunstanton Closed 1931: Re-Opened 1979 By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
AT INTERVALS around our coasts stand solid, stone buildings with arched doorways facing the sea, many now with moss on their tiled roofs, weeds in the gutters and rust on the runners for the massive wooden doors. They are old lifeboathouses,...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.' Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read and...
Category: Committee
Commercial Shipping: Taking Off the Crew
AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL last May the gold medal for outstanding gallantry was presented to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the silver medal to Coxswain/Mechanic Alexander ' Alastair' Gilchrist of...
Category: Articles
A Bronze Medal Service at Blyth
ABOUT five in the evening of 23rd December, 1938, the coastguard rang up the life-boat station at Blyth, Northumberland, to report a ship, firing rockets and blowing her whistle, about three miles east of Newbiggin Point. At 5.15 the motor...
Category: Services