LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Festive Figures:
Festive figures: Christmas may be a mere memory by now, but for Mr Sid Cook and his wife Peggy, of Lowestoft, production of this year's selection of seasonal novelties, to sell for charity, is already in full swing. In 1986 the Cooks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
College principal
Geraldine Grainger is the RNLI’s new College Principal and Head of Training. Geraldine joined the charity from the John Lewis Partnership, where she was responsible for the training, learning and development of 28,000 partners. She also has...
Category: Articles
Brothers, of Shields
On the 17th February the brig Brothers, of Shields, was totally wrecked on the Redcar Rocks, near the mouth of the River Tees. On her perilous position being seen from the shore, the Redcar life-boat proceeded to her, and rescued her crew, 7...
The Fortuna
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the afternoon of Sunday the 15th October, during a S.S.E.
wind and a heavy sea, a barque—which proved to be the Fortuna, of Arendal,Norway, bound from Aberdeen to that port in ballast—came in sight off...
Champion, of Shoreham
On the 6th December the brig Champion, of Shoreham, was observed in the direc- tion of the Gorton Sand during a N.E.
gale, with a heavy sea. The Yarmouth No. 1 Life-boat put off to her assistance, and found that she was...
A Vessel The Belle Isle
.— On Sunday, the 19th Jan., the Belle Isle, of Shoreham, was • totally lost on the Sizewell Bank during a strong gale. The Belle Isle having sunk in deep water, the crew took to their boat, • and after drifting about in imminent peril...
Fishing Cobles (1)
The coxswain received a telephone message about 10 A.M. on the llth January, stating that three fishing cobles were in danger off Alnmouth and unable to make any headway against the prevail- ing W.S.W. gale and ebb tide. The Life-boat...
Legacies
LEGACIES play a great part in main- taining the Life-boat Service. All who wish to help in this way can include the following clause in their wills: / give and bequeath to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Preservation of Life...
Category: Donations
Award for Bravest Act
Some years ago a Miss Maud Smith left a sum of money to the Institution so that a gift of £5, to be known as the 'Miss Maud Smith award for courage, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke', might be made each year to the...
Category: Awards
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Roland Moore of Barrow. He was appointed second coxswain in 1941 and after a break for war service became coxswain in 1947. In 1958 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for a service in which...
Category: Articles