LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue In a Gale Near the Harbour Bar
ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
Ex-Coxswain...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Branches of the Shipwreck Institution
FILEY BRANCH.
Chairman—Rear-Admiral MITFORD.
Honorary Secretary—JAMES MOSEY, Esq.
Airey, H. C., Esq. . .
Beswick, W., Esq. . .
Beswick, S. K., Esq...
Category: Branches
Michael Vernon, the Chairman of the RNLI
Michael Vernon, the Chairman of the RNLI addresses the audience at the afternoon Annual Presentation of Awards.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
December
Launches 61. Lives rescued 79.
DECEMBER 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
While the fishing fleet was out the northerly wind increased until it was blowing strongly, with squalls, bringing a rough sea, which...
Category: Services
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Aldeburgh. Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-Boat
ON 27th May, H.R.H. the Prince George, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. This is the seventh Motor Life-boat to be named by the Prince.
The Aldeburgh boat is the first of a new type...
Category: Inaugurations
The Sea
• One of many magnificent photographs in The Sea by Robert C. Miller (Nelson, 4 guineas), a beautifully illustrated work, is a picture of a Dutch life- boat at sea..
Category: Articles
(Below) the Race Horse Shore Line; Her Name Has No Connection With the Rnli But Her Owners Are Lifeboat Supporters
(Below) The race horse Shore Line; her name has no connection with the RNLI but her owners are lifeboat supporters.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A French Trawler (2)
NOV. 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 8 A.M. Mrs. R. W. Hathaway, La Dame de Sark, telephoned that a French trawler had anchored near Havre Gosselin, Sark. A fresh S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 8.25 A.M.. the motor...
The Call for the Life-Boat
BOOM! Booml The sound of the signal gun Thrills the heart, as it startles the ear, And swift as their flying feet can run The men rush out as the sound they hear; And swift as their strong hands can undo, Shackle and fastenings are undone...
Category: Articles
The Day of a DOS By Joan Davies
NOVEMBER, BY TRADITION, is the time for the annual conference of the district organising secretaries, the liaison officers between the RNLI's voluntary financial branches and guilds in the field and its headquarters at Poole. At the...
Category: Articles