LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Meteor Jet Aeroplanes
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—About 1.0 in the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1951, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that two Meteor jet aeroplanes had crashed into the cliffs at Bempton in a mist. Later, he said it was between the...
Love our lifesavers
We celebrated the work of some very special RNLI volunteers at our Annual Presentation of Awards in May. Here we feature Natasha Lambert, and two other dedicated volunteers
The RNLI has no...
Category: Articles
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.L.I. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is by virtually everlasting 'Betalite'. It has two range...
Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BLAKENEY, NORFOLK.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently stationed a life-boat at Blakeney, at the north extremity of Norfolk, at which place a crew of fishermen perished last year in attempting to rescue a shipwrecked crew. This...
Category: Articles
Two French Life-Boat Disasters
IT is with very great regret that we record two Life-boat disasters on the French coast during the present year.
In one of them two Life-boats of La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Nau- frages were wrecked with the loss...
Category: Articles
Mercury Direct,
4STAR holidays Enjoy the 4 Star comfort of Malta's Ramla Bay with 3 days FREE car hire included A.
n exclusive cost picturesque islands of cutting holiday Gozo d Comino. It is within easy reach of only from Mercury...
Category: Advertisement
The following information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service
The fill/owing information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service in which it towed in the three Royal Nary inshore... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mirza
OC T . 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from a doctor that he had been requested by the senior naval officer at Ramsgate to go to the Dutch steamer Mirza. A gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. As no motor...
A Stained Glass Window Dedicated to the Lifeboat Service Was Unveiled at the Church of Scotland Crown Court London on April 21: It Shows a Pulling Lifeboat
A stained glass window dedicated to the lifeboat service was unveiled at the Church of Scotland, Crown Court, London, on April 21: it shows a pulling lifeboat going to the rescue of a steam tug and records the Institution's 150th... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs