LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Long Service Ladies
At the recent AGM of Anstruther lifeboat womens' guild, President Edith Clark, wife of lifeboat station's coxswain, John Clark, handed out eight long service certificates to guild members for service to the station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat International By Commander Peter D Sturdee Obe Rn
FIRST EVER LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION PLYMOUTH: JULY 19 - AUGUST 17LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL is the slogan chosen for the International Lifeboat Exhibition which is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, from July 19 to August 17. It is...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
1st October to 31st December.
Greater London.
BARNES (SURREY).—Concert.
BERMONDSEY.—Concert.
CLAPHAM.—Address to the Rotary Club by the Organizing...
Category: Branches
A Silver Medal Service at Flamborough
ON the night of 2nd March, 1937, the Grimsby steam trawler, Lord Ernie, bound for Grimsby from the White Sea, with a crew of fifteen men, went ashore under Bempton Cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The harbour- master at Bridlington picked...
Category: Services
Shoreline
RNLB SHORELINE, the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat which was originally funded by our Shoreline appeal, moved station last year from Blyth, in Northumberland, to Arbroath where, on Saturday April 16, a service of re-dedication was held. It may...
Category: Articles
St. Olof
On the 10th November, signals ol distress having been shown by the Cork Light, the Life-boat Springwett was launched at 2.45 A.M., and on arriving at the Cork Light found that they were answering signals from the Sunk...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January three of the fishing cobles belonging to Flamborough put out to sea. About three hours later, when the boats were five miles from home, the N.N.W. wind...
Category: Services
The Reports of the Meteorological Council of the Royal Society for 1889 and 1890
THESE reports contain matter of very considerable general interest, showing, as they do, what has been and is being done to perfect the system of weather forecasts in this our ever-changing climate, as well as to compile a register of the...
Category: Articles
The Record of 1928
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT has been a year of splendid achievement for the Life-boat Service, overshadowed by a great tragedy.
During the year the Institution gave rewards for the rescue of no fewer than 591 lives....
Category: Annual Reports
Falcon
On the night of the 23rd February the ketch Falcon, of Cardiff, came to anchor in St. Bride's Bay, off Broadhaven, about half a mile from the shore, and very shortly afterwards a N.W. gale sprang up. The vessel being on a lee shore, was...