LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven
By the death, on 3rd June last, of Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven, at the age of fifty-seven, the Institution loses one of its most distinguished Coxswains. He was appointed Bowman in 1911. A year later he became Second Coxswain, and...
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Reported to the September Meeting.
Ramsgate, Kent. — The Norwegian steamer Lovoy, of Haugesund, while bound from...
Category: Services
The Prince Pins the Gold Medal on Coxswain John Howells
(Mr. George F, Shee, the Secretary of the Institution, is standing] behind the Prince.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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‘MY YOUNGEST SON …DROWNED IN A RIP TIDE’
‘The Silent Epidemic’ in the latest issue of Lifeboat evokes powerful feelings. 10 years ago my youngest son who was participating in a turtle wildlife rescue programme in Costa Rica,...
Category: Articles
IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRB's which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full elsewhere in THE LIFE-BOAT, the following launches on service were made during the months of April to August, 1965, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services
Doctors In Life-Boats
CATASTROPHE comes quickly at sea. On any dark stormy night a doctor's bed- side telephone may ring and the urgent voice of a coastguard may ask for immediate medical assistance to a ship several miles from shore. If he agrees, and the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Crew Member Frank Dunster (Left) Who Took His Own Rigid Inflatable to the Casualty and Roderick James (Right) Helmsman of the Hayling Island Atlantic
Lifeboat crew member Frank Dunster (left) who took his own rigid inflatable to the casualty and Roderick James (right) helmsman of the Hayling Island Atlantic 21.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On 21st June, 1970—The 30th Anniversary of the Evacuation of Dunkirk,
On 21st June, 1970—the 30th anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk, in May/June, 1940—a fleet of little ships of Dunkirk fame gathered in a huge circle off the coast of Thanet. Here a French sailor is shown casting a wreath from the town... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
For sale: Land Rover for under £6?
The RNLI Flood Rescue Team Land Rover is now available as a Corgi model, along with its very own trailer and lifeboat.
With a recent run of wet Summers, specially trained RNLI volunteers have rescued hundreds of people...
Category: Articles
The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
Category: Articles