LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts
THE first of three life-boats built out of a gift of £33,000, which the Institution has received from its Southern Africa branch,* was named at Beaumaris, Anglesey, on the 23rd of July, 1948, in the presence of a large audience on the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boatman's Log
Award to the Peterhead Coxswain THE Royal Humane Society has awarded its "Testimonial on Parch- ment" to Coxswain John Buchan McLean, of Peterhead, a gold medallist of the Institution, for diving fully clothed into Port Henry...
Category: Articles
Jenny Rose
Selsey, Sussex. At 6 p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been observed a half a mile south of Chichester Harbour. A R.A.F.
helicopter from No. 22...
Don't Get Carried Away
Mablethorpe Crew Member Claire MacDonald recommends: 'Please take care with inflatables - the majority of our shouts are for dinghies and rubber rings. Take notice of any warning signs and be aware that offshore winds can take... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service In 1933
ALTHOUGH 1933 was remarkable for having one of the longest and most settled summers on record, the number of lives rescued from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland was the largest for five years. It was 406. Of this total...
Category: Articles
New Brooch Bars for Medallists
BROOCH bars for winners of the medals awarded by the Institution have recently been introduced and are now issued to all medallists. The bars are covered with the Institution's medal ribbon, which is light blue in colour, and are 1| in....
Category: Medals
Look Out for Danger on the Beach from 12 January
Look out for Danger on the Beach from 12 January - the second national BBC TV documentary series to feature the work of the RNLI lifeboats and lifeguards in Devon and Cornwall. Viewers may remember last year's moving report of the death... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pippa
REFLOATED YACHT Exmouth, Devon. At 1.25 p.m. on iyth May, 1964, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a yacht was in a dangerous position on the Pole sands and at 1.40 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched, taking her boarding...
The S.S. Kentbrook
Aldeburgh Suffolk.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 4th of February, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone ashore two miles north of Orfordness. At 8.40 the No.
1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched. There...
SPRING 2016 LOTTERY RESULTS
Congratulations to Mr M King from Hampshire, who won the £5,000 first prize in our Spring
Lifeboat Lottery.
The other winners were:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Mr K Hope, Kent
3RD PRIZE:...
Category: Articles