LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maurice Hardy CBE
JULY 1994 Maurice Hardy CBE CENG, who funded the prototype Severn class lifeboat Maurice and Joyce Hardy..
Category: Obituaries
Irb Launches on Service During the Months September, October and November, 1970
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Banger, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Bembridge, Isle of Wight Blackpool, Lancashire Borth, Cardiganshire...
Category: Services
January
JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.
JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...
Category: Services
Books
• The first lifeboat in the Penzance area was built in 1803 to Henry Greathead's design, purchased by local subscription and a donation from Lloyd's.
Unfortunately, the early initiative faded and the boat was sold...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
Four more volumes from Jeff Morris, the Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, chronicling the life and times of various lifeboat stations - this time taking in three stations in England and one in...
Category: Articles
Landing the Rescued
Seventy passengers from the Scillonian which went aground in a fog (See page 291). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Down to Business! the Ceremony Over, Margate's Crew Launch the Station's D Class Lifeboat to Tow Dinghy to Safety.
Down to business! The ceremony over, Margate's crew launch the station's D class lifeboat to tow a dinghy to safety.
...As the last cake crumbs were being brushed away and the bunting untied after the Margate... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain William Sinclair, of Aberdeen
Awarded the silver medal for gallantry and a second-service clasp to it in 1937. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crimond
The motor Life- boat John Ryburn performed a very good service in the early hours of the morning of 10th February. Between 1 and 2 o'clock an urgent call came from Sanday for the Life-boat to proceed to a vessel which had stranded on the...
Ghost Cabinets
THE Institution now has two ghost cabinets, to show the changes in the equipment of the Life-boat Service.
They are on the principle of the old "Peppers Ghost," and are worked by a penny in the slot. In each...
Category: Articles