LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain C. A. Johnson
Four coxswains whose outstanding acts of gallantry were recognised by the award of medals died during the past year. Among them was the holder of an exceptional number of medals, COXSWAIN CHARLES AMBROSE (JOE) JOHNSON, who joined the crew of...
Category: Obituaries
Shirley May
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1957, a message was received from theAlderney harbour master that three men had put out in a boat to go fishing and had not returned. They had been last seen at six...
Opinion: What the Public and Press Say...
THE R.N.L.I., as a result of the Fraserburgh inquiry, has been widely discussed in the press and debated on television. Many letters have been received at headquarters, including a large number following the Public Relation Officer's...
Category: Articles
Letitia
On the 16th August the 14,000-ton passenger and cargo steamer Letitia, of Glasgow, bound from Montreal to Glasgow, ran ashore on the South Briggs Rocks in a dense fog. In addition to cargo, she was carrying 300 passengers and 200 crew....
Notes of the Quarter
ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...
Category: Articles
Brooks & Bentley
A time for faith, hope and inspiration The poem 'Footprints' with its touching image of our Lord carrying us through troubled times, has provided hope and inspiration to millions all over the world. And now. Brooks & Bentley...
Category: Advertisement
Cover Picture
by Mike Floyd The 1993 Medallists arrive at the Festival Hall for the presentations.
From left to right - John Pearson (Whitby), Peter Bisson (St Peter Port), Rod James and Frank Dunster (Hayling Island) and Hewitt Clark... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
by Maggie Murray/Format Prior to the Annual Presentation of Awards on 19 May, the six Bronze Medallists line up aboard the Mersey class Marine Engineer for the photocall on the Thames.
Next Issue: The Autumn issue of THE... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Pilot Boat
At daylight, on the 20th February, a pilot-boat was observed at anchor under Craig Leith Island, with the sea breaking very heavily all round her, and the wind blowing a gale from N.N.W. with severe frost. The North Berwick life-boat was...
Play A-Ground
Play a-ground Children from the Drayton Park Primary School are pictured celebrating the relaunch of the Oakley class William Henry and Mary King - in their playground! Nearly 1.000 people turned up to the school summer fair on 27 June to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs