LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Springtide
Gale search A 999 CALL was received by Hartland Coastguard at 2125 on Saturday April 25 from the owner and skipper of the 55ft auxiliary ketch Springtide. He told them that the yacht had been moored in an exposed position in Ilfracombe...
Mr. Philip Nicholls
Mr. Philip NichoIIs, ex-Coxswain of the Penzance Life-boat, died on January 30th at the age of 75. He was con- nected with the Penzance Life-boat for over 30 years, becoming a member of the Crew in 1871. He was appointed Second Coxswain in...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD.—We have inadvertently omitted to notice in its proper order a new life-boat, which was placed at Southwold, in Suffolk, in the autumn of 1852.
This boat was built by BEECHING and SONS, of Great Yarmouth, on the...
Category: Articles
Video footage shows the teens being helped through the waves to the waiting lifeboat
Category: Photographs
Rnli News
Freedom of Swansea The officers, committee and crew of The Mumbles lifeboat station were honoured with the Freedom of the City of Swansea on April 23, 1987, when the Lord Mayor of Swansea, Councillor Mrs Lilian Hopkin, presented the freedom...
Category: Articles
Pollyanna
Five saved as stranded yacht sinks on rising tide Both of Harwich's lifeboats were involved in a service to the yacht Pollyanna last August when she grounded on the Cork Sands and eventually rolled over while a lifeboat crew member, a...
Volunteer Checker Derek Thorrmgton
volunteer checker Derek Thorrmgton (right) is briefed by SEA Check Coordinator Ian Benham (left) aboard the boat of Mike Houchen (centre). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stuart Crystal Chalice Made for Rnli 150th Anniversary In Limited Numbered Edition of 150 One Panel Etched and Engraved Depicts Henry Great/Lead's Original Lifebo
Stuart Crystal chalice made for RNLI 150th Anniversary in limited numbered edition of 150.
One panel, etched and engraved, depicts Henry Great/lead's Original lifeboat, with, on reverse, the RNLI crest and dates... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Atterton Mbe,
December John Atterton MBE, former RNLI deputy director from 1969 until his retirement in 1981. Mr Atterton first joined the Institution in 1936..
Category: Obituaries
Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 13th of March, 1951, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings