LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (41)
APRIL 1ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A British bombing aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but another boat picked up two survivors and a dead body. - Rewards, £8 16s. 6d.
(See Peterhead, “...
The Life-Boat: An Appeal
WHEN the wrath of the tempest bursts over the deep, And the woe-laden winds from their fastnesses sweep, And revel and shriek in their terrible glee, As they whirl o'er the breast of the pitiless sea: When the foam-crested billows surge...
Category: Poetry
Ceremonies
Naming and dedication Ceremonies rlOWth - Arun class Hibernia The naming ceremony of the RNLI's new relief 52ft Arun class lifeboat was held on Saturday 16 September at Howth Harbour.
Mrs Maureen Haughey named the new...
Category: Inaugurations
A Launch of the Private Lifeboat Henry Ramey Upcher Near the End of Her Active Life
A Launch of the Private Lifeboat Henry Ramey Upcher Near The End of Her Active Life. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News
News ‘A treasure trove!’ This is just one glowing comment from a visitor to the RNLI’s new Henry Blogg museum in Cromer – and now ‘official’ accolades have followed.
The building's contemporary design follows the curve...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (18)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
Annual Meeting
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 114 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 62 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1933 63,299 Annual Meeting.
THE hundred and ninth annual...
Category: Meetings
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. A British bomber had crashed near Jaywick and the life-boat found her, bottom upwards, but there was no trace of the crew. It was learned later that three of the airmen had swum...
The S.S. Fort Ellice
LANDING AN INJURED MAN Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 1st of June, 1947, a wireless message came from the S.S.
Fort Ellice that she wished to land a man with a broken leg and other injuries. The case was...
New Ways of Raising Money
A new member of the Fishponds branch of the R.N.L.I., Mr. Martin Rowe, organised a 'Guess my weight' competition, plus a skittles evening, at the Railway Hotel, Fishponds, near Bristol—and raised over...
Category: Donations