LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Xepha and Sea Keveral
Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...
Lantyan
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY ALL NIGHT IN FOG Selsey, Sussex. At 9.20 on the evening of the 22nd November, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from Niton radio station that the motor vessel Lantyan of Fowey, which had a...
Gratefully Remembered
On 24th, September, 1939, just three weeks after war was declared, the Aldeburgh life-boat rescued the crew of 24 of a French steamer which had been torpedoed. The honorary secretary at Aldeburgh had a letter at the beginning of this year...
Category: Articles
Killin, of Greenock
CATSTER, NEAR GREAT YARMOUTH.—At P.M. on the 19th March, the lights of a vessel, supposed to be on the Barber Sand,were observed from this station, and the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, proceeded to her assistance. A snowstorm from the N....
The Triple-Screw Motor Yacht Shirley Bourne
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.20 in the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1949, in a dense fog, the watchman on the East Pier reported that cries for help could be heard, and five minutes later the life-boat Prudential left her moor- ings. A light...
Mr. Barrie Bennett's, M.B.E.
MR. BARRIE BENNETTS, the honorary secretary of the Penlee Station, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours List. He became honorary secretary in 1913, was awarded the Institution's binoculars in...
Category: Awards
The Splendid 81 Ib Sturgeon Who Let Himself
The splendid 81 Ib sturgeon who let himself be caught to raise money for the RNLI at Billingsgate Market's open dav last ear.
Portered here by Bill Ruth, the sturgeon was bought by London wholesaler, Leslie Steadman,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Lt-Cdr Tim Fetherston-Dilke
Lt-Cdr Tim Fetherston-Dilke rose to move the resolution, photograph by courtesy David Trotter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lt Cdr Barney Morris RN
Lt Cdr Barney Morris RN (Retd) Former Weymouth station honorary secretary, on 18 June..
Category: Obituaries