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Idler
Caister, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1951, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht was flying distress signals about a mile south-east of Winterton. At 4.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched....
H.M. Motor Launch No. 323
Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1954, information reached the life-boathouse that H.M. motor launch No. 323, a survey vessel, had gone aground on the Barber Sands. At 12.19 the Great Yarmouth coastguard...
Annual Meeting
Important Notice.
Owing to the continued extraordinarily high cost of all printing, and the need for economy in view of the large capital expenditure with which the Institution is at present faced, THE LIFE-BOAT will not...
Category: Meetings
The Wandsbek
CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—The full-rigged ship, Wandsbek, of Hamburg, struck on the Dales rocks at the Lizard Point, on the 26th May. Bookets were fired fromthe signal station, the Life-boat Minnit Moon wai launched at 4.5 P.M. in response to them...
'Allo 'Allo, Oo Ees Thees?
Actress Vickie Michelle, best known as Yvette of "Allo 'Allo' fame, was persuaded to join a mother-and-daughter collecting team photocall at London's Liverpool Street station during the City of London branch flag day in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Foresters 135 Challenge
The Foresters society celebrates its 135th year in 2009, and has chosen to support the RNLI, setting a fundraising target of £135,000.
Foresters provides financial products like insurance policies and savings plans...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
IT is proposed in future to publish in The Lifeboat lists of new Branches with the names of their Honorary Secretaries.
The following list is of the Branches which have been formed since the beginning of 1925 :— NORTHERN...
Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A message by telephone was received on the 21st May, 1898, stating that a steamer was aground about two hundred yards south of Huttoft. The Life-boat Sir John was launched at 12.45 p.m., and found the vessel was the...
Category: Services
This Magnificent Photograph of the Old Folkestone Lifeboat
This magnificent photograph of the old Folkestone lifeboat, J.
McConnell Hussey, was found by Mrs Joan Hopkinson who kindly donated it to the local branch who in turn gave it to Geoff Cosford, proprietor of the Lifeboat Inn... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Contents
Contents Volume XLIV Number 455 Notes of the Quarter, by The Editor Henry Blogg Centenary Exhibition Lifeboat Services International Boat Show ...
Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman of the Institution 111 112 113 119...
Category: Contents