LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE The cover for the first issue of THE LIFEBOAT for 1974—the RNLI's 150th yearis reproduced from an old coloured lantern slide believed to have formed part of 'the first advertising campaign for RNLI on magic lantern...
Category: Drawings
Gay Crusader
Cronier, Norfolk. At 7.10 on the evening of the 6th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red parachute flare had been fired from the motor launch Gay Crusader one mile east-north-east of Cromer. The no. 1...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
WHITBY.—On the 1st October, at 4 P.M., the Life-boat Harriott Forteath was launched and put four of the crew of a Cornish fishing-boat, the Matchless, on board their vessel, which was riding at anchor near Whitby Rock, and was in great...
Category: Services
Hopewell
WELLS, NORFOLK.—The ketch Hopewell, of Lynn, bound for Wells from Hull with corn and cake, arrived in Holkham bay on the afternoon of the 3rd August, just after high water, and was lying there awaiting the next tide when she would proceed to...
Rescue of Bathers In Distress
TWICE during th? past summer Life- boats have saved the lives of bathers who had got into difficulties. On each occasion the Life-boat was out on other duties and went to the rescue in the nick of time.
On the afternoon...
Category: Services
Kells Bay
At 5.50 p.m. on 25th June, 1969, it was learnt that the fishing vessel Kells Bay was drifting half a mile off shore at Bull head. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings in a strong south...
76 Year Old Edwin E. Distin (seated), the Only Survivor of the 1916 Life-Boat Disaster at Salcombe
76 year old Edwin E.
Distin (seated), the only survivor of the 1916 lifeboat diaster at Salcombe, with (left to right) Mr.W. P. Budgett, honorary secretary, Hubert 'Bubbles' Distin, son, who is the coxswain, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1864
IN the face of the gratifying fact that our commerce is year by year expanding itself by many thousands of tons of shipping, it is a lamentable and mortifying truth, that the advance of our science and skill does not keep pace with this...
Category: Articles
Rare Snap of the Cromer Lifeboat Picking Up a Solitary Bomber Survivor on January 29 1942
Ran- snap of I lie Cmmer lifeboat picking up a solitary bomber survivor on January 29, 1942.. - View image in PDF
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The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service. Curious Coincidence
In the course of the eloquent speech and earnest appeal which H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALES made as President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, at the London Life-boat Saturday Dinner on 1st May last, he said, " I am anxious to...
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