LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Last word
Our social media users have been busy sharing their support – especially for a very special fundraiser. If you'd like to get in touch too, write to us using the details at the front of the magazine, or get involved with our...
Category: Articles
Unsung Heroes: Steve Robinson
Kinghorn Lifeboat Station’s tractor driver tells us what it’s like to be a part of the RNLI family
How are you involved with the RNLI?
I was senior helm, retiring in 1995. In 2014 I rejoined as tractor driver....
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Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
Mr. JAMES HARTLEY BURTON has been elected an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the valu- able help which he has given to the life- boat service both as honorary secretary of...
Category: Awards
Three Bronze Medals for Welsh Crew
THREE members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans, another the mechanic, Sydney Fowler. The third is a police sergeant named...
Category: Services
The Society of Arts and Life-Saving Apparatus
THE "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," com- monly known as the " Society of Arts," as most of our readers will be aware, offers from time to time its Gold Medal to be competed for by...
Category: Articles
A Sea Hornet Aircraft (1)
St. David's, and Angle, Pembrokeshire.
At. 10.15 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1953, the St. David's coastguard asked if the St. David's life- boat would search for the pilot of a Sea Hornet aircraft...
A time to celebrate!
Both crew gallantry and supporter dedication were celebrated at the RNLI’s Annual Presentation of Awards at London’s Barbican Centre on 27 May. Guest of Honour this year was HRH Prince Michael of...
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Niblick
High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...
Keeping on track
Getting 15 tonnes of lifeboat across a beach is an age-old task …
Lifeboat launch and recovery is a vital link in the lifesaving chain and the stations that cannot use afloat moorings, slipways...
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A celebration of life
Geoff Holt was a teenage sailor with vast potential when an accident changed his life. But his love of the sea and spirit of adventure have no bounds
There were no lifeguards on duty to warn...
Category: Articles