LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr Walter Jones, a retired miner, of Nottingham, was so impressed by the courage of lifeboatmen he saved a little each week from his pension to leave to the Bridlington lifeboat. It was his favourite holiday resort and he would go nowhere... - View image in PDF

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.

The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the new Walton and Frinton life-boat, a gift to the Institu- tion...

the RnLI Headquarters site overlooking Holes bay, poole Harbour Photo: Sue Siegar. - View image in PDF

GOURDON, SCOTLAND.—On the 5th Nov.

last the new Life-boat recently provided for this station was publicly inaugurated with due pomp and ceremony. The village was gaily decorated for the occasion, streamers of flags...

OCTOBER 17TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Ten men had baled out from an American Fortress aeroplane, but no trace of them was found, although aeroplanes and other vessels joined in the search. - Rewards : Cromer, £9 3s. 6d. ; and...

WE HOPE ALL SHORELINE MEMBERS have enjoyed the fine summer. It would seem difficult not to have enjoyed the sunshine, even though our thoughts have been very much with the members of fire services all over the country and with those of our...

Naming ceremonies Henry Alston Hewatai Mallaig Mallaig's new all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after the father of Catherine Hewat of Glasgow, who funded the majority of the £1,8m lifeboat with a bequest in excess of £...

DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...