LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Folk-Boat Huckleberry Finn
Weymouth, Dorset - At 6.50 p.m.
on 29th May, 1966, a yacht reported that the folk-boat Huckleberry Finn was dismasted and adrift about eight and a half miles south east of the Shambles lightvessel.
The...
At the Harwich Naming Ceremony
At the Harwich naming ceremony (left to right) Captain H. W. T. Owen, Chief Superintendent of Trinity House and chairman of the local branch; Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E, Secretary of the R.N.L.I.; the Mayoress of Harwich; Capt G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Zetland Pictured In the 1877
Zetland pictured in the 1877 boathouse at Redcar, which is now a museum dedicated to the 190-year-old lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below. Calm After the Storm
Below. Calm after the storm - a very bedraggled Rasmus lies afloat in Ramsgate Harbour following the rescue. Photo: Mike Pert. - View image in PDF
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Norwegian Honour for the Institution
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., Chairman of organizathe Committee of Management, and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, have each been presented by H.M. the King of Norway with the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Life-boat Society...
Category: Awards
This Fight Till You Drop Was the Idea of Publican Jim Kelleway of the Lord Nelson Poole Quay
This fight till you drop was the idea of publican Jim Kelleway of the Lord Nelson, Poole Quay. Champion male jouster was Peter Taylor and top maiden Emma Southwood, appropriately enough a member of Poole and Bournemouth branch of the British... - View image in PDF
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Award of Medals, Gratuities, Etc
The following is a list of the cases in which Rewards have been granted for sav- ing life, during the year 1851-2, laid be- fore the Annual Meeting in accordance with ' Rule 13 of the Institution.
Jan. 2.—The emigrant...
Category: Medals
Two Young School Girls Claire Durbin and Claire Wates Organised a Sponsored Swim on Behalf of the Rnli In the Swimming Pool of Button High School All Ten of The
Two young school girls, Claire Durbin and Claire Wates, organised a sponsored swim on behalf of the RNLI in the swimming pool of Button High School. All ten of the 10-year-old girls taking part completed the maximum half mile, and between... - View image in PDF
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The Ketch-Rigged Yacht Totland
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.52 on the evening of the 2nd of September, 1953, the Walton coastguard reported that he had been informed by the master of the Cork lightvessel that the ketch-rigged yacht Totland was drift- ing slowly about...
The Navy Entertains Life-Boatmen
WHEN the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight life-boat went to the help of the schooner Lamorna, on the 4th of November, 1951, and rescued her crew of fourteen (as described on page 308), H.M.S. Redpole, which had had the Lamorna in tow, was standing by...
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