LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Walmer, Kent, Life-Boat Charles Dimin (Civil Service No. 32) Was a Subject Taken By Mr. N. F. Green, of Aldridge, Staffs,
The Walmer, Kent, Life-boat Charles DiMin (Civil Service No. 32) was a subject taken by Mr. N. F. Green, of Aldridge, Staffs, forthe Barry Photographic Compe- tition last year. Picture was taken on 28th August, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Robert Runcie
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, visited W aimer lifeboat station on Sunday October 18, 1981, where he was taken out for a trip in the 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat The Hampshire Rose.
Before going aboard he met... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
American Journey By Patrick Howarth
RECENTLY I VISITED the USA in my capacity as secretary of the American/ British Lifeboat Appeal Committee.
I was able to make my journey at no cost to the appeal through the generosity of Transworld Airlines and was...
Category: Articles
An Unknown Yacht and April Legend and On Y Va
Triple rescueThe last day of June 2001 marked the end of the BT Global Challenge and Calshot's D class lifeboat RJM was at sea to welcome the yachts back to Southampton. RNLI lifeboats are always on call, however, and at just after 3pm,...
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
Category: Articles
The Service Boards of Rye Harbour
Ox Sunday the 27th of July. 1952, a service was held in the Church of the Holy Spirit, at Rye Harbour, to cele- brate the centenary of the first record- ed rescue, in August 1852, by the Rye Harbour life-boat, known at first as the...
Category: Articles
The Last Moments of Port Du Hurel (Photo - Jersey Evening Post)
The last moments of Port du Hurel. (Photo - Jersey Evening Post). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Car Boot Sale Organised By Henley-On- Thames Branch Last Autumn In Full Swing:
The car boot sale organised by Henley-on- Thames branch last autumn in full swing: trade in garden tools, nearlv new clothes, toys, bric-a-brac and all manner of goods was brisk. An original, popular and profitable enterprise which resulted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
DURING THE EVENING of Tuesday July 28, 1981, Blackpool's D class inflatable lifeboat had been out on service, searching for what a man on shore had reported might be an upturned boat out to sea.
Nothing had been found...
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: AUGUST 1993 Dermot Walsh, coxswain of Valentia lifeboat from 1969 to 1982. He joined the crew in 1949 and served as second coxswain from 1964 until his appointment as...
Category: Obituaries