LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Sidney Cann of Appledore, who was appointed bowman in 1922, became second coxswain in 1931 and has been coxswain since 1933. Since he became a boat's officer Appledore life-boats have been...
Category: Articles
Lady Sarah Fitzalan-Howard at the Wheel of the New Selsey Sussex Life-Boat — a 48-Foot 6-Inch Oakleyaccompanied By Coxswain Ron Arnell
Lady Sarah Fitzalan-Howard at the wheel of the new Selsey, Sussex, life-boat — a 48-foot 6-inch Oakleyaccompanied by Coxswain Ron Arnell.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (6)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Joan Manning District Organising Secretary (Midland Shires) Was at Worcester to Meet Two Other Adventurers Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock As They Reached the En
Joan Manning, district organising secretary (Midland Shires), was at Worcester to meet two other adventurers, Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock, as they reached the end of a 100-mile sponsored canoe paddle from Welshpool. Adam and Graham,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
Skin divers trapped AN INFLATABLE DINGHY with four people on board, sighted drifting close inshore north of Fleshwick Bay, was reported to Port Erin deputy launching authority by Ramsey Coastguard, Isle of Man, at 1614 on Tuesday March...
Plymouth Exhibition
The international lifeboat exhibition, which as reported in the July issue of THE LIFEBOAT is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, will run from July 20 to August 31,1974, and not from July 14 to September 10 as...
Category: Correspondence
From the Director
It is a relief to be writing my annual message for The Lifeboat as a welcome alternative to sending letters to the editors of the Sunday Telegraph and Private Eye! Many of you will have read the articles in those publications and will share...
Category: Articles
The child, the engineer and the Wizzer
In October 1973, airmen and their families in the then West Germany pledged to raise funds for a B class lifeboat
Young Allen Stevens was a primary school student at RAF Wildenrath, where his...
Category: Articles
A Cheer for the Life-Boat
" SIR you observe that ?" we asked, one autumnal evening in the year of grace and so forth, when, with a score of others, we were peering into the darkness from the weather-side of Ratnsgate Pier.
'•What, sir...
Category: Articles
Rnli Depot at Poole
THE MOVE of the depot from Boreham Wood to Poole was completed on October 1, 1976. Last to come was the machinery; within a fortnight of removal day it was in full operation on the new site.
The RNLI's first storeyard...
Category: Articles