LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI Director Receives Cbe
As reported in the Spring issue of The Lifeboat the RNLI's Director, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, was awarded the CBE in the New Years Honours List.
Lt Cdr Miles is pictured at Buckingham Palace with his award accompanied by Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"All Sich Things As the Like o' That."
Pulling Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" Our men have the advantage of a local knowledge which, if it had been taken into account by...
Category: Songs
Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 50-61.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 163.
Abersoch, Carnarvon, 167. Orogbeda, Ireland, 256.
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Category: Articles
Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Gold Medallist. Honorary Secretary of the Tynemouth Branch
Major H E Burton OBE RE Gold Medallist Honorary Secretary of the Tynemouth Branch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sapora Elizabeth
A t 11.15 P.M. on the 3rd August a large coble, named the Sapora Elizabeth, of Whitby, and manned by six hands, was in considerable danger of being driven on to a lee shore, owing to a wind suddenly springing up from...
The Spanish Liquid Gas Carrier Butaseis
Liquid gas carrier fire A SPANISH LIQUID gas carrier Butaseis, lying at anchor three quarters of a mile off Brixham breakwater with a fire in her crew's quarters, was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0749...
The Oil Exploration Vessel Oregis and Northsider
Tug on rocks AN ENGINE breakdown just as she had cast off her tugs on her final trials resulted in the oil exploration vessel Oregis going aground at the entrance to the Tyne. It was 1530 on Sunday, March 10. Tynemouth honorary secretary was...
Captain Hans Hansson, Director of the Swedish Lifeboat Service, Speaking at the Annual Meeting. on the Right of the Picture Is the Duchess of Kent.
Captain Hans Hansson, Director of the Swedish Lifeboat Service, speaking at the annual meeting. On the right of the picture is the Duchess of Kent.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Once an RNLI supporter, always a RNLI supporter! When Mrs J. B. Wilson, who had worked within the ranks of Colwyn Bay branch since 1965, settled with her family in Hong Kong she asked HQ if she could start a branch there. With the dedicated...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Lock
The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at the time, with a...