LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Superintendent Engineer
MB. A. C. BUTCHER has been succeeded as superintendent engineer by Com- mander (E.) R. A. Gould, O.B.E., R.N.
Commander Gould entered the Navy as a boy artificer in 1915, and saw much service in the last war. He was engin-...
Category: Committee
The Drilling Rig William Allpress
RIG SERVICE IN 60 KNOT GALE AROUND 1.30 p.m. on 19th October, 1971, it was learnt that the crew of the drilling rig William Allpress were in need of assistance. The rig was anchored J mile off Rustington, Sussex, and had been in this...
Rescued from Scroby Sandbank After a Dramatic Midnight Search In a Gale By Gorleston Life-Boat Mr Harry Dickie (right) Prepares to Step Ashore
Rescued From Scroby Sandbank After A Dramatic Midnight Search In A Gale By Gorleston Life-Boat Mr Harry Dickie (Right) Prepares To Step Ashore. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Retirement
Mrs. R. H. Robinson, of Reigate, who for 20 years was the District Organising Secretary for the R.N.L.I, in south east England, retired at the end of last year. Committee members of the 160 branches in the south east district subscribed to a...
Category: Committee
A Noteworthy Jubilee
FIFTY years ago, i.e. on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1842, there was laid to rest in her early grave, amid the stormy surround- ings of her short life, one of the greatest heroines the world has ever known. After this lapse of time the story of...
Category: Articles
Lines Suggested By the Inauguration of a Life-Boat
LAUNCH the Life-boat! Heaven, we pray, Smile upon this glorious day.
Grant out Boat may help to save Shipwrecked ciews from watery grave.
When the storm roars loud and high, To the rescue may she fly,...
Category: Poetry
Saved from sinking car
INVERGORDON | 6 SEPTEMBER
Invergordon RNLI rescued a man from a sinking Land Rover at Cromarty Firth. The all-weather lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was called at 6.40am to Invergordon Sailing Club...
Category: Articles
Lt David Stogdon Mbe
Lt David Stogdon, MBE, former superintendent of depot, Cowes, joined the RNLI in 1952.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Award to Aberdeen Doctor
DOCTOR J. LEIPER, of Aberdeen, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum for the part he played when he was transferred at great risk from the Aberdeen life-boat to a German trawler to treat an injured man.
At 5 p.m....
Category: Awards
A Bronze Medal Service at St. Mary's, Scillies
A MESSAGE was received at St. Mary's, Scillies, through the St. Ives coast- guard, shortly after half-past one in the afternoon of 28th November, that the schooner Mynonie R. Kirby, of London, bound for the South Seas, was drifting...
Category: Medals