LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
June Rose
At 7.45 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat was overdue, having left Walmer Beach at 10.30 a.m. for South Goodwin. In view of the weather conditions in the area the life-boat Charles Dibdin,...
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings : Station*.
CLACTON.—On 2Ist February, Dr.
J. Coxhead Cook, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ended 3Qth September, 1924, showed that £200 had been collected...
Category: Branches
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...
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(Left) a Group of Retired Lifeboatmen
(left) A group of retired lifeboatmen from Lowestoft in the last century. When the picture was taken their combined ages totalled 312. (I. to r.) William Hook, 75, James Burwood, 76, Thomas Coleman, 80, and Matthew Coleman, 81.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1909-1910
WRECK CHART OF THE FOR THE YEAR ,,- .
1909-1910.
fl. •& » 'Swf.rs,, f£in« SHOWING ALSO THE PRZ SEHT LIFE BOAT STATIONS Or THE ROYAL NATIONA.L LIFE BOAT IHSTITUTION ...
Category: Charts
Summary of the Year's Work (1)
Lives Rescued.
Lives rescued by life-boats before the outbreak of war - - -197
Lives rescued by life-boats after the outbreak of war - - - 1001
Total of lives rescued by life-boats...
Category: Annual Reports
On Exercise By Andrew Gould Assistant Public Relations Officer RNLI
IT is THE PRACTICE in the lifeboat service for the divisional inspector of lifeboats to make a formal visit to each of the offshore lifeboat stations in his division once every six months (every three months for ILBs) for the purpose of...
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Coxswain Robert Cross: A Correction
IN the last issue of The Life-boat it was said that Coxswain Robert Cross of the life-boat station on the Humber, whose 'portrait appeared on the cover, had joined the crew in 1906, when the station was under the control of the Humber...
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Robert Cross, G.M.
Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber has been awarded the George medal by the King for the rescue of the crew of the Grimsby trawler "Gurth" on 12th. February 1940. The Institution awarded him its gold medal for the same service....
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Record Breakers! Smiles All Round from Members of the Lowestoft Model Boat Club
Record breakers! Smiles all round from members of the Lowestoft Model Boat Club who returned in triumph after setting new endurance records with their radio-controlled craft during a world distance attempt at Stevenage, which was organised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs