LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 31 July, 1988, show that so far this year.
The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 1,690 times (an average of more than eight launches a day) More than 500 lives have been...
Category: Articles
Sarah Ann
Holy Island, Northumberland. At five o'clock on the morning of the llth of May, 1959, the skiff Sarah Ann left harbour to fish for crabs and lobsters.
By 10.30 all the local fishing boats with the exception of...
The Drowned at Sea
NEVER bronze or slab of stone May their sepulchre note; O'er their burial-place alone, Shall the shifting sea-weed float.
Not for them the quiet grave .Underneath the daisied turf; They rest below the restless wave,...
Category: Poetry
The S.S. Beemsterdijk (1)
JANUARY 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. January 26th was a Sunday, and Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus.Doc., organist at St. David’s Cathedral and the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, received a telephone message at the Cathedral during...
Margaret
At about 6.10 A.M. on the 19th March the ketch Margaret, of Bideford, which was riding in the Clovelly roads for shelter, burnt flares to attract attention. The crew of the Life-boat Elinor Boget were promptly assembled and the boat launched...
Bikeathon
James Danvers, ten year old son of llford branch chairman Paul Danvers, suggested to his little sister Emily, that they help dad raise funds by entering the llford Recorder Bikeathon. This year's Bikeathon, organised by local the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Madeleine
At half-past four on the morning of Sunday, the 23rd October, a coastguardman, on the look-out near the quiet little seaside town of Clacton, saw a signal rocket fired from, the Gunfleet Floating Lightship, which told of a wreck on the...
G. W. Pearns
Signals were fired from the Customs Watch House at 11.30 A.M. on the 28th March, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required. The crew of the Life-boat John Turner Turner at once assembled, the boat was launched, and in about...
Commander Oscar Henderson CVO CBE DSO RN
Commander Oscar Henderson, c.v.o., C.B.E., D.S.O., R.N., a member of the Committee of Management since 1948 and chairman of the Belfast branch, died on 3rd August at the age of 77.
Commander Henderson was one of the best...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Constantine Brings Scarborough's Mersey Class Lifeboat In Stern First Through Heavy Seas on One of Eight Attempts to Get Close Enou
Coxswain/mechanic Richard Constantine brings Scarborough's Mersey class lifeboat in stern first through heavy seas on one of eight attempts to get close enough to the sea wall. Photo Scarborough Evening News. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs