LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 16th September, 1921.
Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Admiral of the Fleet, The Marquis of Milford Haven, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., and of Major Sir E. F....
Category: Committee
News and Views
Deputy PM takes to the lifeboats! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took to the water in the Dover lifeboat recently when he presented the RNLI with a Millennium Product plaque for the Severn class all-weather boat.
The...
Category: Articles
KISS OF LIFE
A 13-year-old’s quick thinking and love for his Dad keep them both alive when a February kayaking trip goes wrong
After a good breakfast, Paul Rowlands kissed his wife Julie goodbye and set off on an adventure with his son...
Category: Articles
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 5.8 in the evening, on the 28th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was in distress off North Shore.
At 5.34 the life-boat Anne Allen was launched in a choppy sea with a...
The Sailing Boat Venture
Skegness, Lincolnshire. — During the evening of the 8th of June, 1948, the coxswain had under. observation the local sailing boat Venture, which had put out with three men and a boy. The breeze from the north-north-west was light, and the...
The RNLI and me: Sir Steve Redgrave
WHO IS SIR STEVE REDGRAVE?
Rower Sir Steve Redgrave is the only person to win gold medals at five different Olympic Games. He now works in the media, with charities, and as a motivational speaker.
The five-time...
Category: Articles
Southend-On-Sea May 2 1986:
Southend-on-Sea, May 2, 1986: on a brilliant day, with bunting splashing colour across the blue skies, Princess Anne came to Southend-on-Sea to name a new lifeboat after a local hero. She met and talked to station officials, crew members and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th September, 1927.
Sir GODFREY. BAROTG, Bt., in the Chair, Ik-ported the receipt of the following special contributions : — £ s. d.
Civil Service Life- boat Fund (per Mr. H. A. Clark) in...
Category: Committee
Fishing Boats
.— On the 29th November a strong S.S.E. breeze sprang up, bringing with it a very heavy sea.
At the time seven of the fishing boats belonging to Montrose were at sea, and the thirty men forming their crews were in jeopardy....
Swimmers In Action
When the Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season was out on exercise on 25th August, they were signalled by a fishing coble.
When they went alongside they found that she had a trawl warp round her propeller. The two...
Category: Articles