LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Maggie May (Pinnie) Howells MBE
November 1995 Mrs Maggie May (Pinnie) Howells MBE, a founder member of Tenby ladies' lifeboat guild. In 1939 she was chairman of the guild and later president from 1975 to 1994. Mrs Howells was awarded a statuette in 1987 and received a...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Relief Atlantic 75 (B705) The Vera Skilton The Crew Tfignks on Vellum Helmsman Wayne Martin for his 'boat handling skill.
judgement and leadership.' '...[he] handled the Atlantic 75 expertlv...'...
Category: Services
Two Fishing Cobles of Flamborough, The Doreen May and The Pioneer
NOVEMBER 7TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Two fishing cobles of Flamborough, the Doreen May and the Pioneer, were fishing off Flamborough Head. The weather was getting worse, and by eleven in the morning a north-easterly gale was blowing, with...
The New 48-Foot 6-Inch Life-Boat
THE Institution has produced its first life-boat of the larger class, with a cabin and shelter for the crew and survivors, which incorporates the self-righting principle. This is a 48-foot 6-inch life- boat designed by Mr. R. A. Oakley,...
Category: Articles
Royal Festival Hall 1972 and Robert Haworth Receives from Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli the Silver Medal Awarded for Barmouth Ilb's Service on J
Royal Festival Hall, 1972, and Robert Haworth receives from HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, the silver medal awarded for Barmouth ILB's service on June 21, 1971.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fighting Services Ever Mindful of the Work of the Rnli Assisted at Lifeboat Flag Days During Both Wars Here Members of the Waaf at Raf North Coates Near Gri
The fighting services, ever mindful of the work of the RNLI, assisted at lifeboat flag days during both wars. Here members of the WAAF at RAF North Coates, near Grimsby, are shown in the summer of 1942.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Al Kwather I (1)
Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
Lifeboat Lottery
Regular players of the Lifeboat Lottery will know Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines as a kind sponsor, frequently donating cruises as prizes. But there is a lot more to the RNLI’s partnership with Fred. Olsen than holiday...
Category: Articles
The New Eddystone Lighthouse
In former numbers of this journal we published a series of papers on "Lights and Lighthouses," to which an account of this the last of our great outlying light- towers will be an appropriate sequel.
As a preamble...
Category: Articles
Bradford's Bazaar. Fund for the Life-Boat House on the Humber
Fund for the Life-boat House on the {lumber.
As all readers of The Lifeboat know, the city of Bradford has been conspicuously generous in its support of the Life-boat Service, and nowhere, on the coast or inland, has the...
Category: Articles