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
Rnli News
Hammering away...
The RNLI's appeal for autographed items which can be auctioned to raise funds has already attracted an enthusiastic response.
Several hundred autographs have been received at...
Category: Articles
End of An Era:
End of an era: on the retirement of Coxswain David Cox of Wells I above) til the end of August, the station was without / member of the Cox family fur the first time in three generations. David Cox was a member of the crew for 43 vears and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) After Her Naming By Lady Aitken
(Below) After her naming by Lady Aitken, the 52ft Arun lifeboat Sir Max Aitken takes guests for a demonstration trip.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
William Luckin and Crew Slip Her Moorings
William luckin and crew slip her moorings with the Atlantic 75 Daiy A/atef and crew standing by. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate
BY the death on 18th August, at the age of 68, of Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate, the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished coxswains.
Coxswain Read was appointed second 'coxswain about 1915, when the...
Category: Obituaries
Warrior Geraint and Choice
Torbay, Devon.—At 10.10 on the night of the 10th of December, 1957, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was flashing S.O.S. inside Torquay harbour. The lifeboat George Shee put out at 10.35 in a heavy swell. A fresh...
New Life-Boats Named
THREE new life-boats were named in July, 1958. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, agreed to name two of them and her daughter, H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, named the third. The life-boats which were to be named by the...
Category: Inaugurations
Paul Boyton (1)
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—On the 20th September, at about 12.30 A.M., the ship Paul Boyton, of Yarmouth, N.S., 1097 tons, bound from Baltimore to Hamburg with a cargo of maize, went ashore on the Goodwin Sands during a fresh wind from the W....
Thelma
The Life- boat Mary Batger was launched shortly after noon on the 19th August to the assistance of the pleasure coble Thelma, of Saltburn, which had put to sea with three persons on board. A N.W. gale suddenly sprang up, making the coble...