LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
B.Y. 109
DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin...
The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1907) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...
Category: Awards
Across the Waves...
Across the waves...
RNLI fundraisers all the way from the Falkland Islands visited Bishop's Waltham branch in August last year and presented a cheque for their most recent box collection, and a special 'I plaque.<... - View image in PDF
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Centenary of the Institution, 1924. Appeal to Honorary Secretaries
THE Secretary of the' Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary' Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they...
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat
The lifeboat which now goes out to help fishing boats at Whitby is the 44ft Waveney The White Rose of Yorkshire. The Waveney class lifeboat, introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964, was the first of the RNLI's 'fast afloat'... - View image in PDF
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New Ways of Raising Money
'Just Men' was the title of a long poem written by Mr. Anthony S. Burry, of Wickmead Close, Southend, in honour of the Moelfre life-boat and sold in booklet form by the Moelfre branch on their flag day on 28th August, 1967. The poem,...
Category: Donations
Past & Present
100 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, August, 1888 Issue.
Brighstone Grange and Brooke, Isle of Wight On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a...
Category: Articles
The French Naval Vessel Victorieuse
Dungeness, Kent.—There was fog in the morning of the 2nd of March, 1948, and at 8.20 distress signals were heard. At 8.45 the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a moderate north-easterly breeze, with a choppy sea, and...
The Liberian Motor Vessel National Fighter
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 7.32 on the morning of the 7th of December, 1959,the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress rockets had been fired by the Liberian motor vessel National Fighter three miles south-east of Lowestoft....
Ken Tickles the Crowds
Lifeboat coffers were boosted by almost £23,000 during Hoylake lifeboat station's open days which were held over the August Bank Holiday.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs