LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (16)
MAY 1ST. - DUNGENESS, KENT. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only oil and wreckage could be found. - Rewards, £21 6s..
Inshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1976
Aberdovcy, Gwynedd September 12, 27 and November 11.
Abersoch, Gwynedd September 15 and November 14.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 5 and October 27.
Arbroath, Tayside October 26.Atlantic...
Category: Services
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
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Shirley recognised at Trearddur Bay
Shirley Rogerson, awarded the British Empire Medal in HM The...
Category: Articles
The Light Type of Motor Life-Boat. Problems of the Three Capsizes
By LiEUT.-CoMMANDER P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
THEEE motor life-boats have capsized in the space of fifteen months. In each capsize lives were lost.
The St. Ives life-boat...
Category: Articles
Mr. Colville's Funeral Address
" I have come here to-night as the representative of the committee of management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
" We are met in grief and in pride.
The men whom we mourn were loved...
Category: Articles
Sunderland Tragedy
Criticisms of the absence of the Sunderland life-boat when a lifeguard was drowned in tragic circumstances near the Cat and Dog steps at Roker last August were refuted at the inquest on the lifeguard, Mr. John Ramsay. He had gone out to...
Category: Articles
Three Fine Services By the Humber Life-Boat. 102 Lives Rescued In Five Weeks
IN the course of five weeks of the war, from 10th October to 14th November, 1939, the motor life-boat at the Humber was out on service ten times and rescued 102 lives. For three of these services Coxswain Robert Cross was awarded a clasp to...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (23)
MARCH 26TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 11.15 in the morning Croyde coastguard reported to Appledore that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea. The same information was given to Ilfracombe by the resident naval officer. The...
Last Year the Braunton and District Branch of the RNLI In North Devon Organised a Number of Efforts the First Being a Raffle Involving a Model Tug Made By An Appledor
Last year the Braunton and district branch of the R.N.L.I, in North Devon organised a number of efforts, the first being a raffle involving a model tug made by an Appledore man. It raised during the summer over £60. Picture shows Mr. A.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr Wallace Barber,
Mr Wallace Barber, RNLI honorary life governor. Mr Lister was a founder member of theStockport crew of auxiliary lifeboatmen - a unique group with a record of 58 years service to the RNLI. He was honorary secretary from 1937 to 1972,...
Category: Obituaries