LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Outboard: Watertight
SINCE HER INTRODUCTION to the RNLI fleet in 1971, the Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat has not only proved her worth on service, but has also shown herself to be a thoroughbred among boats.
With her speed, range,...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
New lifeboats named and dedicated Mudeford -Atlantic 21 Ken DerhamSaturday, 2 February will long be remembered in Mudeford as the day when the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was named Ken Derham. by her namesake. The day was cold and...
Category: Inaugurations
Summer of '37
Recently I came across some old photographs which I am sending to you hoping they will be of interest. In 1937 we were spending a family holiday in St Ives, Cornwall, and one day during our first week we found ourselves, with other holiday... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (9)
On the 26th November, 1939, the Lytham-St. Annes life-boat got alongside the Mersey pilot boat Charles Livingstone, but the men on board, who were rescued later by the Blackpool life-boat, refused to leave her.
COXSWAIN...
Category: Articles
None (25)
MAY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 8.15 in the evening the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over the cliffs near Berry Head and lay on a ledge of rock close to the water’s edge. At 8.40 the motor life-boat George Shee was launched, taking...
B. E. M. for Hoylake Life-Boatman.
Sidney Triggs, a member of the life-boat crew at Hoylake, and now a leading-torpedoman in the Navy, has been awarded the British Empire Medal. He is one of seven brothers of whom three are in the Navy; one is about to enter the Navy; two are...
Category: Articles
Silver Medal for Padstow
On the izth of August the Padstow No.i. life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the steamer "Kedah" close under St. Agnes Head, in a full gale and huge, confused seas. It was only at the third attempt, after being twice damaged, that...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (45)
DECEMBER 14TH. - ANSTRUTHER, HARFIFESHIRE. In a very strong gale a steamer had gone ashore at Sauchope, but the water was too shallow for the life-boat carryto get alongside and the crew of 45 were rescued from the shore by the...
Vineta (1)
Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part X—Engines and Superstructure Fitted: Steering System
A CRANE MOVED into the boatshed at William Osbornes one day last autumn to lift first the twin engines and then the superstructure aboard the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
The engines are twin...
Category: Articles