LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Minesweeper Cape Comorin
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY.
NOV. 12TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About three-thirty in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the Whitby life-boat station that a vessel was ashore close under the cliffs...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
DURING the past year the difficulties— at all times serious—encountered by those endeavouring by personal effort to raise money for, and increase public interest in, deserving charities and in- stitutions have been in evidence in a greater...
Category: Articles
The Walmer Luggers
A TABLET has been placed on the side of the life-boathouse at Walmer, Kent, commemorating the Walmer luggers which were, in the words of the Institution's honorary secretary at Walmer, " the cradle of the life-boat- men " of...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (7)
JUNE 2ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but another boat reached her first and picked up two of the crew.-Rewards, £15 13s. 6d..
Lord Templewood's Tribute
At the funeral service held in Cromer Parish Church on the 17th of June more than 1,400 people crowded into the church, and many hundreds more stood on the pavements outside. The life-boat coxswains of Sheringham, Wells, Caister and...
Category: Obituaries
A Profit of £400 Was Made for the RNLI at the Cheese and Wine Tasting Evening Held at the Royal Naval College Greenwich on 8Th September 1972 the 350 Tickets
by courtesy of David Crowden A profit of £400 was made for the R.N.L.I, at the cheese and wine tasting evening held at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on 8th September, 1972. The 350 tickets for the event were sold by local branches... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of this fund, held on the 16th. January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that during the past...
Category: Meetings
The Wasting of the English Coast. (From the Times, 5th October, 1886)
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
Mr. Angus MacVicar has produced a work which many people associated with the life-boat service must long have wanted to find, a gripping novel written for the young on the work of a life-boat station. This is Life-boat— Green to White...
Category: Articles
A Royal Air Force Machine
Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December.
A Royal Air Force machine came down at sea at night, but could not be found, and the pilot was drowned.
—Rewards, Hartlepool, £...