LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pride
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. — At 7.56 on the morning of the 17th of June, 1948, the Gorleston coastguard tele- phoned that three men in a shrimp boat, two miles to the south-south-west, were showing a flag on a pole and appar- ently...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th November, 1932.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by the Hon. GEORGE COLVIIXE, in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution :— Ancient Order of Foresters £ ...
Category: Committee
Five Life-Boat Broadcasts
THE British Broadcasting Corporation took the opportunity of the visit of life-boatmen to London for the annual meeting to put the life-boat service on the air. There were four broadcasts that week, and a fifth three weeks...
Category: Articles
Britannia Rescue
.-' We've been voted 'Road Rescue Best Buy1 for the 4th time in a row by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine, that's just one of the reasons why the RNLI has made us their official membership motoring scheme for...
Category: Advertisement
Glamorgan's Gift of Two Life-boats to the Prince of Wales
A SCHEME is on foot to commemorate the safe return of the Prince of Wales from his voyage of 35,000 miles by a presentation from the County of Glamorgan which will at the same time signalise the fact that he is the Pre- sident of THE ROYAL...
Category: Articles
RNLI Exhibition at Southend's New Library
At the kind invitation of Leslie Helliwell, chief librarian of Southendon- Sea, the local RNLI branch arranged a most successful '150 years of lifeboat history' exhibition in the borough's magnificent new central library. It was...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1890
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Category: Services
Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1978
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire August 24 Aldeburgh, Suffolk August 2 Amble, Northumberland June 26 and July 1 Angle, Dyfed June 23, July 11 and 31 Anstruther, Fife July 2 Arklow, Co. Wicklow July 25, 29 and August 11 Arranmore, Co. Donegal June 23,...
Category: Services
Darling facts
Grace Horsley Darling was born on 24 November 1815 in her grandparents’ cottage in Bamburgh. She was the seventh child of Thomasin and William Darling.
William was Lighthouse Keeper on Brownsman Island. Grace and her eight...
Category: Articles