LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Walter Jonas Oxley of Walton and Frinton, who has been coxswain since the beginning of 1947. Before that he served as bowman for nearly four years and as second coxswain for more than ten years. While...
Category: Articles
The Steam Life-Boats for Grimsby and Padstow: A New Departure
IT is just a year (vide Life-boat Journal, February, 1898) since a description was given in these pages of the steam Life- boat Queen, which was sent to her station at New Brighton in October, 1897. After the launch of that boat and before...
Category: Articles
The Royal Tay Yacht Club Dundee
The Roval Tav Yacht Club Dundee wax the venue for the Bell's Charily Bottle smash in aid of the RNLI. The bottle, held bv David Bruce of Bell's Scotch Whisky, was smashed open bv Hugh Scott (second coxswain), watched by Stuart... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thanks from the RAF
When an R.A.F. Gnat trainer crashed into the sea—the two pilots ejected from the aircraft before it crashed—on 8th June, 1968, the Holyhead life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was quick off the mark. Group Captain W....
Category: Correspondence
How to Save a Helicopter the Lyme Regis Way
AFTER a fortnight of incessant rain, the weather changed for the better, and on 17th July, 1972, everything seemed set fair for a successful lifeboat week. The piece de resistance was to be a display by a Royal Navy helicopter from...
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‘I CAN DO THIS’
RNLI crew around the UK and Ireland are often called heroes for their acts of incredible bravery. But they are as human as the rest of us
You’re the ones with RNLI written all over you. You’re the people who are there to...
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Plover
FIVE TAKEN OFF Dover, Kent. At 3 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, a cabin cruiser off Cock Point was observed burning a red flare.
At 3.31 the life-boat Southern Africa put to sea. There was a strong south-westerly wind, the sea...
William Humphries
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—10th January.
On the night of the 9/10th January a man in Tenby picked up a wireless call for help from the steam trawler William Humphries, of Milford.
This message, which...
(Below) and Eric (R) and Colin Pavey Father and Son Serve Together In Weymouth
(Below) . . . and Eric (r) and Colin Pavey, father and son, serve together in Weymouth's 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell. Ericreceived the long service badge last year and Colin, who joined the crew in 1980, is now assistant... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Front Cover
Front cover Beaumaris crew members put their station's Atlantic 75 lifeboat, Blue Peter II, (B-768) through her paces beneath the overcast skies.
Photo © Royal Bank of Scotland/Rick Tornlinson. Please tel 02380... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs