LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twin Brothers Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins of Dover (I) and Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Met Aboard Their Lifeboats When Great Ya
Twin brothers, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins of Dover (I.) and Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, met aboard their lifeboats when Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney class... - View image in PDF
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SAVING LIVES AT SEA IS A BIG HIT
Did you see Saving Lives at Sea?
The Summer BBC documentary was a big hit with viewers, drawing 3M in its first episode. For the first time ever, film crews were given an access-all-areas pass to the RNLI's stations, lifeboats...
Category: Articles
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (2)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st January, 1880: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
A Dinghy
Drifting dinghy ON THE EVENING of Monday June 29, 1981, John McAllister was working at Garron Point, east of Red Bay lifeboat station, when he saw people waving in a small dinghy off the point. He telephoned the station's deputy...
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1876
THERE can be few Englishmen who are not aware that during several years past a very uneasy feeling has pervaded the British mind as regards the general status of our "Mercantile Marine," alike as regards the vessels of which it is...
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Three of the 17 Men to Win Medals for Gallantry on Service to Nafsiporos: Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre (Gold) Lt Commander Harold Harvey (Gold) and Coxsw
Three of the 17 men to win medals for gallantry on service to Nafsiporos: Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre gold), Lt. Commander Harold Harvey (gold), and Coxswain Thomas Alcock of Holy head silver).
photographs by courtesy... - View image in PDF
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First Skin Is Laid Diagonally: a Plank Which Has Been Offered Up and Shaped to Lie Snugly With Its Neighbour Is Cramped Into Position and Fastened to the Solid Timbers of T
First skin is laid diagonally: a plank which has been offered up and shaped to lie snugly with its neighbour is cramped into position and fastened to the solid timbers of the boat's frame.. - View image in PDF
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Handy, of Wexford
The schooner Handy, of Wexford, bound from Ayr for that port with coals, struck on the Black- water Bank on the evening of the 10th January, during a thick fog, and sprung a leak, when she made for the shore at Cahore, where she subsequently...
The Gorleston Motor Life-Boat, "John & Mary Meiklam of Gladswood," Returning to Harbour After Saving the S.S. "Fox," of Hull, and Her Crew of Six on 27th November, 1924
The Gorleston Motor Life-Boat "John & Mary Meiklam of Gladswood" Returning To Harbour After Saving The SS "Fox" of Hull and Her Crew of Six On 27Th November 1924. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs