LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medallists of 1927 at the Annual Meeting
Top Row: Second Coxswain Roberts and Captain Owen Jones (Moelfre, Anglesey), Coxswain Upcraft (Southwold), Coxswain Fleming (Great Yarmouth and Gorleston). Second Coxswain Balis and Coxswain Blogg (Cromer).
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Category: Photographs
Joe Salmon
Joe Salmon, foreman rigger at the RNLI's Poole Depot since 1983, who joined the department as a rigger in 1977. He is survived by his wife Marlene, post room supervisor at RNLI headquarters, Poole..
Category: Obituaries
Six Sisters, of Hull
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—At 1.40 P.M. on the 18th August the St. Nicholas light-vessel fired guns and hoisted signals to indicate a vessel in distress somewhere E. by N. of the lightvessel.
Blyth: (Right) the Bottle of Champagne Breaks As the Duchess of Northumberland Names the 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Rnlb William and Jane on September 17 1983 And
Blyth: (Right) The bottle of champagne breaks as the Duchess of Northumberland names the 44ft Waveney lifeboat RNLB William and Jane on September 17, 1983, and …. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Moyallon
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 6.48 a.m. in the morning of the 4th of September, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Moyallon, of Belfast, lying in St. Ives Bay, had signalled that an accident had occurred on board, and the motor life-boat...
The Service to the Goeland, 17th September, 1935
From a drawing by the Barry Dock motor mechanic, H. G. Swarts, who won the bronze medal (or his share in the service (See page 64.).
Category: Drawings
The Lebanese Vessel Kapitan Vanghelis
IN SHALLOW WATER At 11.11 p.m. on the same day the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground in a moderate sea three miles off North Foreland. It was one hour after low water and there was a moderate westerly breeze....
Mrs. Finch, of Chelmsford
By the death of Mrs. Finch of Chelms- ford, on 15th August, the Institution has lost an honorary worker whose devotion to the life-boat service was shown by her refusal to give up her work for it, even when disabled by serious illness. Mrs....
Category: Obituaries
That sinking feeling
MACDUFF AND BUCKIE | 21 JUNE
A lone skipper triggered an early morning rescue on Father’s Day after snagging a propeller and finding that his vessel had been holed. The boat – a decommissioned trawler...
Category: Articles
City of Ghent
Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.27 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1955, the motor vessel City of Ghent, of Dublin, wirelessed that she had run ashore about three miles north-east- by-east of Lizard, but had later re- floated and was...