LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Magnificent Service on the East Coast
As the Journal goes to press the reports have been received of a magnificent service on the East Coast on 21st and 22nd November, in which the Motor Life-boats at Cromer, Gorleston, and Southwold all took part. The Dutch oil-tanker Georgia...
Category: Services
The RNLI and me: Fern Britton
The TV presenter and author talks Cornwall, creativity and crabbing
What inspired someone who’s spent a lot of their life around London to write about a tiny Cornish fishing village? I’ve loved Cornwall, especially Looe,...
Category: Articles
Lives Rescued by Shore-boats and Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Shore-boats rescued 1,168 lives, for whose rescue the Institution rewarded the rescuers.
Auxiliary rescue-boats, established by the Institution, rescued 42 lives..
Category: Services
The Motor Cruisers Sea Gull and Bill
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.12 on the evening of the 20th of August, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a motor cruiser was aground on the Burbo Bank near R.4 Buoy in the Rock Channel. Two men had walked ashore from her leaving...
We Ask the Questions
What is involved in running a successful RNLI branch and how does it work? Lifeboat speaks to two branch officials from very different corners of the Institution - John Dennison, chairman of Uckfield and Heathfield branch in Sussex, and...
Category: Articles
The Motor Drifter Linnet
Barrow, Lancashire.—In the evening of the 12th December, 1938, the coastguard at Walney Island reported that a vessel appeared to be ashore about one and a half miles N.W. of Walney lighthouse. She was burning flares.
A...
MAYDAY AT THE HARBOUR MOUTH
The lives of six fishermen are in danger. Their fishing boat is drifting dangerously close to shore. Powerless against the gale-force winds and sea swell, they need help – fast
It’s the end of a blustery October day in...
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The Central Appeals Committee
THE first target of the Central Appeals Committee is to raise over £75,000 of new money during the present financial year. The R.N.L.I.'s estimate of income provides for receipt of this amount, which is part of the £550,000...
Category: Committee
H.M.S. Wanderer and the S.S. Crossbill
GREEK STEAMER SUNK BY ENEMY ACTION.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, ** Norfolk.—At 12.28 P.M. on the 24th October, 1939, a message was received from the senior naval officer through the Gorleston coastguard that...
MBE for fundraiser
Last issue we reported on eight RNLI staff and volunteers who were honoured by HM The Queen in the 2015 New Year Honours list. We thought we’d captured them all, but unfortunately one slipped through the net: Chris Fonteyn MBE JP. Chris was...
Category: Articles