LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meet The Team
Meet the team Lifeboat crew, shore helpers, station officials and fundraising volunteers stand proudly with their new Tamar class all-weather lifeboat, boathouse and slipway at Tenby in Pembrokeshire Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Enterprize II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.5 on the morning of the llth of October, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the fishing coble Enterprize II was at sea in bad weather. Conditions at the outer harbour bar were dangerous, and the No. 1...
Coxswain John Connell of Amble Northumberland
Coxswain John Connell of Amble, Northumberland. He joined the lifeboat crew in April 1953, became bowman in February 1962, second coxswain in February 1967 and coxswain in August 1972.
He was awarded the thanks of the RNLI,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cheyenne
_ _ Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork. — At 3.20 A.M. on the 16th September, 1939, a telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life-Saving Service that the motor vessel Cheyenne, a tanker of Newcastle, had been sunk by enemy...
World Concord (2)
On the 27th of November, 1954, the Liberian tanker World Concord broke in two in the Irish sea. The St.
David's, Pembrokeshire, life-boat rescued thirty-five men from her fore- part, and the Rosslare Harbour,...
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, Are Often Attracted to This Large R.N.L.I. Codfish Collecting Box Which Stands at the Approach to the Beach. Mr. W. E. Russell Is the Honorary Volunt
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, are often attracted to this large R.N.L.I. codfish collecting box which stands at the approach to the beach. Mr.
W. E. Russell is the honorary volunteer emptier of this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Best Efforts By F R Davies
HOW WOULD YOU react when confronted with three seven-year-old boys who had seen, say, a model you had built 15 years ago, and who wanted to build their own? Would you tell them that, because of inflation, it would cost three times as much...
Category: Articles
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
Above: Martin Woodward
Above: Martin Woodward (right), coxswain of Bembridge lifeboat, receiving the donation raised at The Return of May Madness'. In the background is the oil painting 'Cobweb' by James Bartholomew, which was painted specifically for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs