LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Busiest Winter for Twenty Years. Medals Won By English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-Boatmen
Medals Won by English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-boatmen.
THE winter of 1935-6 will be remem- bered for the frequency and severity of its gales, for the heavy loss of life and shipping which they caused at sea, and...
Category: Medals
The Women of Boulmer. Seven Hours on Duty In a December Night's Blizzard
ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.
Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collier which loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...
Category: Services
Crossword competition
WINNER OF THE WINTER journal crossword competition, compiled by Coxswain Arthur Liddon of Dover, is S. N.
Perkins of Kingston-on-Thames; his was the first correct solution (shown on the right) to be drawn after the closing...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Feature: RNLI Family
They're some of the RNLI's most devoted supporters. They love the lifeboats.
They're hungry for knowledge about lifeboats. Some of them give all the money they own to the RNLI. They often write to Stormy Stan...
Category: Articles
Loss of Member of Exmouth Crew
AT 4.59 on the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1956, the coastguard informed the Exmouth honorary secretary, Mr.
P. H. C. Butler, that a vessel was burning- red flares four miles south- east of Orcombc Point. This is about...
Category: Services
Boat Show 1982 Earls Court
EACH NEW YEAR, during the Boat Show at Earls Court, the boating industry gives most generous recognition and support to the lifeboat service. Among the eminent people who have been invited to open the show in past years— who include Prince...
Category: Articles
Britannia, of Belfast
On the even- ing of 24th February, the smack Bri- tannia, of Belfast, being observed riding heavily to her anchors, in an exposed position, during a strong gale from N.E., with the night coming on, the Life-boat John Turner-Turner was...
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod—The World's First Pure Jet Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft—Of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Morayshire (Left), the Well-Tried Avro Shackleton Used for Search and R
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod—the world's first pure jet maritime reconnaissance aircraft—of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Morayshire (left), the well-tried Avro Shackleton used for search and rescue (right), R.A.F. rescue/target towing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Appledore Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat breasts heavy surf in Bideford Bay. She was donated by RAF personnel and their families stationed at Wildenrath, Germany, who raised more than £5,000 for the RNLI in just one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs