LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Green grant
The newly refurbished Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh, Northumberland, has proved a very popular tourist attraction. But it’s not just the exhibits that are attracting plaudits. The Low Carbon Buildings Programme has awarded the museum a...
Category: Articles
Letters
Why do I support the RNLI? Two accounts follow of contrasting, unusual experiences on a lifeboat in answer to this question During the Second World War I served for a time in an RNLI boat The Sir William Hillary, ex Dover station. I was 19...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboats at Llandudno and Conwy By Heather Deane
LLANDUDNO AND CONWY are neighbouring lifeboat stations on the north western tip of Wales, separated by just a few miles of coast but by more than 100 years in lifeboat history.
In 1850 Llandudno was a small village...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1997 Aberdeen. Grampian Arun: Jun 13 and Jul 8 D Class: Jul 8 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 8, 29 and Jul 24 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 1 (three times), 8, 16, 19,22,29.30,...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
Book Review
S.O.S. The Story of the Life-boat Service. ByCyrilJolly. (Cassell, 12s. 6d.) Mr. Jolly has already written the life of Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer.
Here he tells the story of the life-boat service. His book is...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
'Thursday, 10th May, 1934.
The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE in the chair.
Passed a vote of thanks to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., president of the Institution, for his kindness in presiding at the 110th...
Category: Committee
The Naval Tug Warden
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 11.26 on the morning of the 5th of February.
1955, the coastguard telephoned that the Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, had asked if the life-boat would land three injured men from the naval...
Elizabeth Taylor
Cullercoats, Northumberland. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the of the 3rd of July, 1955, the beach superintendent at Whitley Bay rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that a boat had burnt flares in Whitley Bay and appeared to be...
Books
• The early years of the Dungeness lifeboat station were ones of uncertainty.
The station opened in 1826, just two years after the RNLI was founded, and in the next 48 years was closed twice and moved up and down the coast...
Category: Articles