LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Give it a go: Coastal sketching
Winter days may be short, but the coast is just as beautiful – and often more dramatic – in the colder months. Wrap up warm and get creative with Illustrator Jessica Hogarth
For Jessica, art began at home: ‘My coastal...
Category: Articles
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey, who was District Organising Secretary for the Midlands from 1952 to 1957, died on the 29th of March, 1958. Lieut.- Colonel Livesey was educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and...
Category: Obituaries
Pilot Me and Gem
FISHING BOATS ESCORTED IN Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early in the morning of February 19th, 1947, two fishing boats, the Pilot Me and the Gem, put to sea in moderate weather. Later the sea became heavy, making it very dangerous for boats to enter...
Fishing Boats (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—When the life- boat reached harbour at 8.15 on the morning of the 7th of May, 1949, with the fishing-boat Prosperity and the yacht Red Rover, she was told by the coastguard that three other local fishing boats were...
Coxswain Walter Pestell, of Palling
Coxswain Walter Pestell, of Palling, Norfolk, who died on 25th February, at the age of eighty-five, joined the Palling Life-boat Crew at the age of eighteen.
Six years later, in 1870, he was appointed Coxswain, and served...
Category: Obituaries
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths.
MARCH 1988: Mr Tom Brown, honorary secretary of Ramsgate lifeboat station from 1974 until his retirement in 1979.
MAY 1988: Mrs Dorothy Smith, first...
Category: Obituaries
Longhope Naming
The naming ceremony for the new Longhope, Orkney, life-boat took place on 27th May, beside Longhope pier. The new life-boat is the David and Elizabeth King and E.B.—a 48-foot 6-inch Solent—and has been paid for by legacies left by Miss...
Category: Inaugurations
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JULY 24TH. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES.
After the last boat of the day had left for Oban, a local doctor asked the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Oban. He thought that the man would not live until the following day...
LOCAL HEROES RAISE £3,500
Every child has their heroes. For James ‘Suds’ Sutherland they were footballers and lifeboat crew. So when ‘Suds’, a lifelong Celtic supporter with strong family links to the RNLI, died of a brain tumour in 2015, his friends found the...
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Glanvill Enthoven & Co Ltd
Glanvill Enthoven INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE BROKERS As specialists in marine insurance for over 75 years, we are extremely proud that our clients include the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Glanvill s marine service...
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