LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Readers might be interested in this picture of Minehead's first lifeboat, George Leicester.

In my connection with a rural museum, I was asked to print some pictures from glass negatives - among them I found this picture... - View image in PDF

THE gales of the, past winter brought to London the largest number of life- boatmen who have attended the Annual Meeting to receive their medals since this custom was started in 1913.

Fifteen were invited : Coxswain Patrick...

Cromer THE new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was named at Cromer on 2ist June, 1967. She was given to the R.N.L.I, and her replacement provided for in perpetuity by Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, in memory of her...

JUNE 29TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.

Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £19 15s..

On the 18th October the German steamer Birkenau, of Bremerhaven, while bound in ballast from Antwerp to Methil, was caught in a strong northerly gale, with very heavy seas, and driven on to the rocks at Chapel Point, some miles east of...

A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...

SEATON CAREW and HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.—A terrible disaster, involving the loss of several lives, mostly Lascars, took place on the 31st January at the mouth of the River Tees. The s.s. Clavering, of London, a large vessel of upwards of 3,300...

The children of High Bank Nursery School, Swinton, Manchester, and their parents raised £293.50 for the RNLI in memory of their late head teacher, Miss Constance M.

Hardman; while the children pile into their... - View image in PDF