LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Superintendent at the Depot
COMMANDER J. M. UPTON, M.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who has been Super- intendent of the Life-boat Depot since 1941, has retired and has been suc- ceeded by Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N.
Commander Upton, who was born at Petworth...
Category: Committee
A Touch Of Brass Can Lead To So Much More
A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th January, 1908.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Lerwick's Severn Class Lifeboat
Lerwick s Severn class lifeboat Michael andJane Vemon Photo: Johnnie Simpson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Drama in the dark
On the evening of 11 September 2014, the St Agnes lifeboat sped towards granite cliffs. It was the calmest night of the year – but, inside a flooded cave, a hidden drama was unfolding
Helmsman...
Category: Articles
Tropacara
At 4.23 a.m. on 2oth June, 1967, it was reported that flares had been sighted north west of Cape Cornwall. The lifeboat Susan Ashley was launched at 4.45 in a moderate westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was shortly after high water. The life...
Ginette, of Audierne
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 10.45 a-mon 18th March, 1967, a French fishing vessel was reported to be in difficulties half a mile north west of St. Ives Head.
The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 11...
A Canberra Aircraft
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...
Life-Boat Exhibition at Greenwich
Last spring the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum at Green- wich, and the Museum's director, Mr.
Frank Carr, decided to arrange a special life-boat and life-saving exhibition.
To the...
Category: Articles
At the Sharp End
A selection of lifeboat services from around the country Wells East Division Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat...
Category: Services