LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
First Prize for Sheffield Schoolgirl
ELIZABETH LAVINIA MAXFIELD, of North and South Anston County Pri- mary School, North Anston, Sheffield, won first prize in the competition for the best essay on the life-boat service organized by the Institution.
The...
Category: Articles
Rescue from a Turkish Steamer
AT 3.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1955, Coxswain William Cox. of Wells, was told by the coastguard that a message had been received from the S.S. Richmond Queen, of London, that the S.S. Zor, of Istanbul, was in distress six miles...
Category: Services
Looking at Lifeboats the Arun Class
Continuing a series of profiles of lifeboat classes By Keith Thatcher RNLI Naval Architect TI he RNLI's experiment with an in the Waveney class proved to Institution turned its attention to tended service...
Category: Articles
Island Aruns: Naming Ceremonies at Port St.Mary Isle of Man July 21 and Yarmouth Isle of Wight July 24
A LIFEBOAT NAMING CEREMONY is always a happy occasion for a station, its supporters, and, indeed, the whole local community, but that at Port St Mary, Isle of Man, had a particularly pleasurable aspect. For while the RNLI has many lifeboats...
Category: Inaugurations
Books
BooKS A lifeboating selection to inspire, thrill and ponder Asboville by Danny Rhodes Asboville may not sound like it has any relevance to the RnLi, however a lifeboat crew member plays a key part in this surprising...
Category: Articles
Letters
Dear Editor, I have been involved with or hanging around lifeboats since 1946 and have a fundraising silver badge.
The feature 'Lifeboating - an education' in the spring issue of the Lifeboat sparked off the...
Category: Correspondence
The Centenary
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
THE Centenary celebrations began with the meeting, in the Guildhall, described on another page, on the Institution's hundredth birthday—4th March. They are being...
Category: Articles
Paquita, of Santander
Very early on the morning of the 4th January, a vessel was seen on the Dogger Bank, off this coast, on which a rough sea was then breaking.
As soon as possible the smaller of the two Life-boats on this station, the Civil...
The S.S. Oakford and Recovery
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life- boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched at 1.40 A.M.
on llth November in response to infor- mation received through the Coast- guard that the Newarp Lightvessel had...
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1933
IN the last issue of The Life-boat particulars were given of services to British vessels during last year by the life-boat services of Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and...
Category: Services