LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Local boat How does one 'sell' the lifeboat service? Our branch committee at Barrow-in-Furness believes that where you have a comparatively isolated community and a lifeboat station as well, you 'localise' the boat. There...
Category: Correspondence
Tribute to the Brave
Tribute to the brave The day of the annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall ends with an after-theatre supper at the Rubens Hotel for all the medallists and their families. Mrs Anne Wall has very generously made this...
Category: Articles
Henry Blogg Centenary Exhibition
Born on February 6, 1876, Henry Blogg served in Cromer crew from 1894 and was coxswain from 1909 to 1947, through two world wars. He was awarded three gold medals for gallantry and four silver Five Cromer lifeboatmen who were in the crew...
Category: Articles
Lloyd's II
A NEW LIFE-BOAT, Lloyd's II, was presented to the Institution at Ilfracombe, Devon, on I3th September, 1966, by Mr. R. W. Sturge, chairman of Lloyd's, on behalf of Lloyd's. The life-boat, which was so named by Mrs. Sturge,...
Category: Inaugurations
The Norwegian Bulk Carrier Blix
Injured seaman THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station was asked at 1600 on Tuesday October 14, 1980, if an injured seaman could be taken off the Norwegian bulk carrier Blix. A rendezvous was arranged for midnight in Dublin...
An Irish Ship
Harbour accident THE LIFEBOAT CALL-OUT paging signal alerted Second Coxswain Christopher Tett of Weymouth on the afternoon of Easter Monday, March 31. 1986. He drove straight to the lifeboathouse, and as he made his way inside he noticed...
Your Letters
Address your letters to: The Editor, The Lifeboat, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ or email us at: [email protected] All submissions should be clearly marked 'for publication' In reply to the letter from GM Reid...
Category: Correspondence
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
Bose
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Category: Advertisement
A Good Example
THE following interesting communication has been transmitted to the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, and is a gratifying evidence of the social kindness of heart that is so frequently found among our British workmen: — " Orwell Works,...
Category: Correspondence