LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Since 1979 Chelsea Pensioner Company Sergeant Major Albert Spurdin has been a regular, and colourful, visitor to the RNLI's stand at the London Boat Show persuading the public to put money into his collecting box.

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Bryan Gerrard, who served the RNLI first as a boat mechanic then as fleet staff coxswain/mechanic. Mr Gerrard worked for the Institution for 27 years..

On station D-659 George Godfrey Benbow (pictured), Howth, 7 February 2006 (D-530 withdrawn) B-775 Millennium Forester, Plymouth, 27 January 2006 D-657 Sally, Lytham St Annes, 18 April 2006 (D-509 withdrawn to the relief fleet) D-652 Team...

AT 9.26 on the night of the 21st of October, 1955, the Southend coxswain, Sidney Page, learnt from the coast- guard that the S.S. Cardiff brook had wirelessed that she had seen a ship aground one mile north-north-west of the North-East Mouse...

THE question has often been asked—why are not life-boats propelled by steam power? It is a very natural question when we consider the difficulty of rowing any boat against a strong wind, and the much greater difficulty of doing so when, in...

TOTLAND BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner The Saint, of Padstow, while bound from Par, Cornwall, to Gravelines, with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Warden Ledge in the early morning of the 2nd May. On receipt of information from the...

" The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth." WE are not about to write a sermon, although we have commenced with a text; but the sentiment...

Stronsay, Orkneys. At 7.10 p.m. on ist June, 1-965, a doctor on Papa Westray asked for the use of the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman to take a patient to hospital at Kirkwall. The lifeboat put out at 7.30 in a moderate northwesterly...