LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Memorial at Clacton-On-Sea
ON the 14th of November, 1948, a memorial plaque to Second-Coxswain Frank Castle, of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat, was unveiled in the boat- house.
The plaque is inscribed with these words: " In memory of Frank Castle,...
Category: Articles
July
Launches 70. Lives rescued 49.
JULY 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire about five miles south-west of Shoreham. A fresh westerly wind was...
Category: Services
Guernsey Ladies' Guild Has Its Own 'Lifeboat' a Mobile Souvenir Stall Which Attracts Great Interest Wherever She Goes Roger Wood Designed Lady Goodwill and Built Her With
Guernsey ladies' guild has its own 'lifeboat', a mobile souvenir stall which attracts great interest wherever she goes. Roger Wood designed Lady Goodwill and built her with the help of other lifeboat supporters; materials were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the South East Coast.
It is on the South East coast that the calls for the life-boats have been most frequent. Walmer has been launched 50 times and rescued 85 lives; Ramsgate 52 times and rescued 168 lives; Margate 60 times and rescued 150 lives. That is a total...
Category: Articles
Feature: Cromer's Famous Son
Cromer's famous son Henry Blogg is the most decorated RNLI crew member of all time. What kind of man was this lifeboating legend, and what did he do to earn such accolades? Henry Blogg's time as a crew member and coxswain was an...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Certificates of Service and Pensions.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: WILLIAM MATTHEWS, 20 years coxswain and 4 years second coxswain of the Beaumaris life-boat.
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Category: Awards
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
by Dee Caffari
Review by Tim Robertson
The comparisons are inevitable I suppose – two women competing solo in a...
Category: Articles
Foreign Medals
The Norwegian Government awarded silver life-saving medals to Mr. E.
SELBY DAVIDSON, honorary secretary at Tynemouth, COXSWAIN GEORGE LISLE, of Tynemouth, W. JOHNSON, the motor mechanic and BART TAYLOR,...
Category: Medals
Reading the sea
From surfers to fishermen to lifeboat coxswains, people who rely on the sea need to be expert at understanding what it’s doing. But how well do you know your tides, waves and currents?
The sea is changing all the time....
Category: Articles
Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds
Mr. Courtenay H. EdmondsWith the death of Mr. Courtenay H.
Edmonds, of Exeter, at the end of 1923, the Institution lost the oldest of its Hon- orary Secretaries. Mr. Edmonds became Honorary Secretary to the Exeter Branch...
Category: Obituaries