LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In May 1969 the Daily Mirror Handed Over a Cheque for £10,192 to the RNLI In Tribute to the Eight Men Who Lost Their Lives When the Longhope Orkney Life-Boat Capsized
In May, 1969, the Daily Mirror handed over a cheque for £10,192 to the R.N.L.I, in tribute to the eight men who lost their lives when the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat capsized. Most of the money came from readers. Mr. Hugh Cudlipp (left)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marathon to Athens
you are going to run a marathon, why not go to Greece and run the original course taken by Pheidippides from Marathon to Athens way back in 490 BC? This is what Bruce Munro did last October, seen here near the end of his ordeal in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs a Smart,
Mrs A Smart, Biddenden, Headcorn and district branch founder member and honorary secretary from 1985 until her death. She had worked for the RNLI for over 35 years in several branches in the following capacities: Crouch End branch LBWO/PRO...
Category: Obituaries
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Children rescued Little and Broad Haven lifeboat went to the rescue of four children cut off by the rising tide on a rocky headland between beaches on 4 April 2004. In heavy surf, Helmsman Crispin Williamson manoeuvred the D class close to...
Racing Dinghies (1)
Five lifeboats rescue racing dinghies Lifeboats from Hartlepool.Teesmouth and Redcar launched to help 30 dinghies that capsized in gale-force winds on 28 August. The dinghies, competing in a 100-strong race in Hartlepool Bay, were caught out...
The Record Month by Month
Vessels Lives Number Lives which Lives Rescued of Rescued Life-boats Rescued by 1945 Life-boat by Saved or by Auxiliary Launches Life-boats Helped Shore-boats Rescueto Save boats January . . 63 100 6 4 - February . . 53 22 6 5 - March . . 43...
Category: Annual Reports
A Life-Boat Crew Bombed.
On 24th. August, the Ramsgate station bad to be closed. Ramsgate was bombed from the air that day, and the whole life-boat crew of nine took shelter in a cellar near the harbour. A bomb burst just outside, and six of the nine were wounded....
Category: Articles
Robert Cross, G.M.
Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber has been awarded the George medal by the King for the rescue of the crew of the Grimsby trawler "Gurth" on 12th. February 1940. The Institution awarded him its gold medal for the same service....
Category: Articles
A French Motor Life-Boat
JANUARY 26TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. A French motor life-boat bound for Bridlington for service as a rescue boat under the Admiralty had been disabled by her engine breaking down. The life-boat passed quite close to her in the darkness,...
A Small Boat
On the 10th February, two boys in a small boat persisted in going out of the harbour, in spite of warnings which they received from men on the pier, and drifted helplessly towards the Scroby sands on which a rough sea was breaking. Five men...