LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ex-Coxswain Matthew Leathbridge,
The following retired coxswains have died: Ex-Coxswain Henry Nicholas served continuously in life-boats from 1919 until his retirement in March, 1967, the last 1 years as coxswain of the Sennen Cove, Cornwall, lifeboat.
Mr...
Category: Obituaries
Hard Graft And Glamour
Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans – but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was horrible,’...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. 3.
"Deck Plan.
Fig. 4.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and airchambers of one of...
Category: Articles
Letters
Twenty years after...
• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...
Category: Correspondence
Picturing the Scene
Photographs are very much part and parcel of THE LIFEBOAT of today - but in Victorian times matters were very different. Barry Cox, the RNLFs Honorary Librarian, on loan from the National Westminster Bank, looks back at the very early...
Category: Articles
New Officers of the Scarborough Life-Boat
Second Coxswain William Sheader, Coxswain Tom Mainprize and Bowman Thomas Rowley (see page 10). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sheringham's Retiring Coxswain By Edward Wake-Walker
Henry 'Joyful' West, BEM, retired as coxswain of Sheringham lifeboat at the end of 1984 after a long and distinguished career. He is a man who would rather talk about the achievements of others than his own, but the 'Joyful'...
Category: Articles
Gamester
At 11.40 A.M.
on the 17th May, the Coastguard reported that the Royal Sovereign light-vessel was making signals of distress, and the No. 1 Life-boat Olive was launched without loss of time. Shortly before reaching the light...
Commander T. Holmes R.N. Late Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
Commander T Holmes RN Late Chief Inspector of Life-Boats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Derick Riley and His Model of the Howth Life-Boat
Derick Riley and His Model of the Howth Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs