LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rotary Service and City of London Ii
This photograph of Rotary Service and City of London II was taken shortly after the Severn took up station duties at Dover and was the last outing for the Thames before her passage to Poole. - View image in PDF
Photo: Barry McGill. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"Please Put It In the Box"
ON London life-boat day a porter at the Savoy Hotel and a cleaner at the gas-rooms at Hackney helped to carry out the full collecting boxes to cars.
Both were offered tips. Both said: " Please put it in the box."...
Category: Donations
The New Rosa Chris Beardshaw
Corrections and clarifi cations In the Autumn 2007 issue we were supplied with the wrong photograph to illustrate the new Rosa Chris Beardshaw. Here is the correct one:. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Twenty years after...
• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...
Category: Correspondence
Kate and Elizabeth
KESSINGLAND,—At about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th May , of Fortsmouth, stranded on the Barnard Sand, in a fresh breeze from the N.E., drizzling rain and a rough sea. The No. 1 Lifeboat jBolton was promptly launched, and...
Stuart Roberts Helmsman of Porthcawl Inshore Lifeboat,
Stuart Roberts helmsman of Porthcawl inshore lifeboat, first joined the crew in July 1980.
Stuart, who is a local Police officer, was awarded the Institution's Silver Medal for o u t s t a n d i n g bravery when the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Computers Made Easy
“This is the best book on computing I’ve ever come across – and I’ve read a few! Now I’m getting the most out of my computer!” G Edwards, London “I keep your book right on my desk. Because whenever I’ve got a problem with using my computer –...
Category: Advertisement
FLASH FICTION
Instead of beating yourself up about not writing that novel, tell a shorter story with the help of RNLI Helm and Writer Eleanor Hooker. You might even get published ...
Flash fiction has one rule: stick to the word count....
Category: Articles
September
Launches 64. Lives rescued 62.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between...
Category: Services
Douse
BROADSTAIRS. — Flares having been blown close to the North Foreland, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Bradford, was launched at 6.45 A.M. on the 13th January, and found the brigantine Douse, of and for South Shields, from Poole, in ballast,...