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The Edinburgh Lightvessel

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

Margate, .Kent, and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 3.55 A.M. on the llthFebruary, 1938, the Margate coastguard telephoned that Clacton coastguard had reported rockets near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. A north gale was bio wing, with a very...

John Petit Joined St.Peter Port Lifeboat Crew In 1952 and Was Appointed Coxswain In 1964; He Was Awarded the Bronze Medal In 1963 the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum In 1972 Bar

Date: Autumn 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 470

John Petit joined St Peter Port lifeboat crew in 1952 and was appointed coxswain in 1964; he was awarded the bronze medal in 1963, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1972, bars to his bronze medal in 1975, 1977 and 1979 and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

In 1915 the RNLI decided that something should be done to ‘galvanise the nation’s support of its heroic lifeboat crews’. The flag day was born and, more than a century later, the RNLI flag pin badge is still a poignant symbol of community fundraising

Date: Autumn 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 625 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2018

Category: Photographs

(Below) Basildon Branch Raised the Funds to Purchase the Present Burnham-On-Crouch Ilb

Date: Winter 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 455

(Below) Basildon branch raised the funds to purchase the present Burnham-on-Crouch ILB—-and has already set as its target for the future a replacement boat. Last autumn Connor O'Brien, chairman of Basildon District Council, came to... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

First Aid for the Shipwrecked

Date: September 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 315

A NEW division of the St. John Ambu- lance Brigade has been formed at Brixham, where it will work in conjunc- tion with the Torbay life-boat, turning out whenever the life-boat receives a call, and standing by to give first aid to any among...

Category: Articles

The Mine Sweeper Willett

Date: May 1915

Volume: 23

Issue: 256

At 4.45 A.M. on the 5th December informa- tion was received that the Sunk Light- vessel was firing signals for assistance to be sent to a vessel which was on the West Rocks. The crew of the Motor Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were promptly...

Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

BY the death on 18th August, at the age of 68, of Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate, the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished coxswains.

Coxswain Read was appointed second 'coxswain about 1915, when the...

Category: Obituaries

Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: April 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 60

 

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Category: Articles

The Belgian Fishing Vessel Celtic

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

Newhaven, Sussex. At 7.20 on the morning of the 9th of April, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian fishing vessel Celtic, which was four miles south of Newhaven, had water in her engine room and needed help....

Aerial Picture of Spurn Head Lifeboat Station Taken at 930 AM on May 25 1951 the Old and New Lighthouses Are Visible Together With An Assortment of World War I A

Date: Autumn 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 446

Aerial picture of Spurn Head lifeboat station taken at 9.30 a.m. on May 25, 1951. The old and new lighthouses are visible together with an assortment of World War I and II military installations.

Just below the lighthouses... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs