LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Invitation to All Supporters
Annual Presentation of Awards ' It has been a busy year for the RNLI - in fact, probably its busiest ever in 181 years. Supporters are now invited to reflect on the events of 2005 at a very special day.The RNLI's Annual General...
Category: Articles
Mount Ida and a Lowestoft Drifter
Cromer, Norfolk.—9th October, 1939.
After rescuing the crew of twenty-nine of the Greek steamer Mount Ida, the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey went to the help of a Lowestoft drifter, but found that her crew had been...
Maggie Smith, the Sunshine and Girl Mary
Arbroath, Angus.—On the night of the 23rd-24th April the weather became bad, and soon after midnight a strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. Six local fishing boats were at sea. One of them, the Maggie Smith, was seen...
West Mersea and Clacton-On-Sea: the Greek Cargo Ship Protoklitos
West Mersea and Clacton-on-Sea: The Greek cargo ship Protoklitos was at anchor in the Blackwater Estuary when, on Monday February 7, fire broke out in her engine room and spread to her accommodation. It was a very cold day with a strong... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
W Softley
APRIL 1991 W, Softley, the last surviving crew member of the Brancaster lifeboat, the station having closed in 1935..
Category: Obituaries
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th July, 1914.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair. Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read the minutes of the Building, Finance and Correspondence,...
Category: Committee
Naming of New Life-Boats
Newhaven H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named the new Newhaven life-boat Kathleen Mary on the 13th of July, 1959. The life-boat had been presented to the Institution by a lady who wished to remain...
Category: Inaugurations
37' Rother Class Lifeboat Hampshire Rose Went on Service at Walmer on February 3. on Passage to Her Station She Visited Lymington (Left), Southampton and Gosport,
37' Rather class lifeboat Hampshire Rose went on service at Walmer on February 3. On passage to her station she visited Lymington (left), Southampton and Gosport, giving the opportunity for her to be visited by the Earl of Malmesbury,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Category: Services
Fiver II
Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 on the after- noon of the 12th of July, 1959, the life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.
32) was returning to her station from Dover after being on display at the Royal Show at Oxford, when the...