LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Councillor K J Holland Mayor of Skegness and a Former Coxswain and Jack Roughton Chairman of the Lincolnshire Appeal Lay Foundation Stones for Skegness'
Councillor K. J. Holland, mayor of Skegness and a former coxswain, and Jack Roughton, chairman of the Lincolnshire appeal, lay foundation stones for Skegness's new lifeboat station. (Photo Bob Lawrence). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
DIFFICULT CONDITIONS OVER BAR Crew member leaps aboard casualty from C class inflatable Helmsman Peter Heading and Crew Member Robert Gorman of Aberystwyth lifeboat station have been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal for Gallantry...
Category: Services
Annual Report
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House on Thursday, the 23rd day of March, 1882, The Eight Hon. The LORD MAYOR of LONDON in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
REMEMBERING PRINCESS VICTORIA
31 January 1953. A storm is building that will cause one of the UK’s worst natural disasters. Despite the gale warnings, at 7.45am the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria begins her regular passage across the Irish Sea. She will never...
Category: Articles
The Dredger Hopper James 96
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1956, the Formby coastguard reported that a small vessel was in difficulties north of Formby float. The life-boat Norman B, Corlett put out at...
A Hero of the Seas
IN spite of the diatribes of pacificists against war as a relic of barbarism and the embodiment of all evil, the present stupendous struggle has once again proved that, notwithstanding the horrors, t h e misery and the grief which war brings...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Vii—Building Up
THE VAST OPEN SPACES of the hull interior gradually disappear as work continues at William Osborne's yard on the internal structure of the 37' 6" Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
In the...
Category: Articles
F.V. Brigg
Life in the old girl yet! The Robert, Beaumaris1 Watson class lifeboat bid a fine farewell during her passage back to the RNLI's Poole depot following her withdrawal from service in July.
She was called into service...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1949
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Category: Services
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MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. A report had been received that an aeroplane was in distress and another that three men had baled out of an aeroplane, presumably the same one, but nothing could...