LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers
Review by Sarah Bass
As Summer draws to a close, Carruthers is stuck in London at his Home Office job while his friends socialise outside of the city....
Category: Articles
Welcome
‘Excited, happy and proud of himself’
That’s how 7-year-old Jim – often quite a shy boy – felt after taking part in a beach-based activity session with RNLI lifeguards and Swim England last summer. Jim is just one of...
Category: Articles
Mrs. F. M. H. Coleman, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton
MRS. FLORENCE MABEL HENRIETTA COLEJIAX, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton, who died on the 25th of August, 1952, at the age of eighty, had been for thirty years a distinguished and most successful worker for the Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling
BY the death of Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling, Nottingham, on the 26th of December, 1950, at the age of 93, the Institution has lost its oldest honorary worker. In spite of her age, and in spite of ill-health, she refused to give up and...
Category: Obituaries
St.Peter Port Lifeboat Crew Formed the Guard of Honour As Her Majesty the Queen Embarked In Her Barge to Rejoin Hmy Britannia at the End of Her Visit to Guernsey O
St Peter Port lifeboat crew formed the guard of honour as Her Majesty The Queen embarked in her barge to rejoin HMY Britannia at the end of her visit to Guernsey on Wednesday June 28. Her Majesty spoke to every crew member, asking about the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Finance In 1942: Income.
Each year of the war the Institution's income has been higher than ever before. Last year it was £495,775- The money that, for the moment, the Institution is able to put by will be spent, when the war is over, on building the boats...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat the Nellie
During the morning of the 26th May two men went off in their yawl, the Diano, to fish in St. Andrews Bay. A strong S.E.
gale came up about 11 A.M., and the men were unable to get their boat into harbour. As the sea was very...
Meg
Just after mid- night on the 21st-22nd October the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, anchored about one mile east of Hengistbury Head, was in danger of being washed ashore. A moderate south gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain...
Sun Seahorse
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF NORWEGIAN VESSEL IN GALE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.54 on the evening of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Norwegian motor vessel Sun Seahorse had a sick man on board who needed a...
Henri Altazin
Humber, Yorkshire - At 3.45 p.m.
on 2nd June, 1967, it was reported that there was a sick man on board the French trawler Henri Altazin. The trawler was due to arrive at the Spurn lightvessel at 2 a.m. on 3rd June. The life...