LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medal for Rescue from Fishing Vessel
Coxswain Gordon Elliott of Padstow has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Deo Gratias on 23rd November, 1965. The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have...
Category: Services
The Storms of Winter. The Return of the Missing Crew
( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...
Category: Articles
M.B.E. for Scottish Honorary Secretary.
In the Birthday Honours Mr. George Norrie Craighead was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work as honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. He is now serving in the R.A.F., and his wife...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Flags out for the lifeboats From Pinner to Plumstead, Romford to Richmond, Potters Bar to Petts Wood, members of almost 100 London branches were knocking on doors between 9 and 16 March during the RNLI's London lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, E.G., R.N.
FROM the moment that Her Majesty's fine frigate the Galatea* left our shores in the spring of last year, under the command of the youthful Duke of Edinburgh, to visit our colonies in the southern hemisphere, and to convey to them in...
Category: Articles
What's on this Spring
The RNLI is out and about this Spring. There’s a fascinating exhibition on tour, our big annual awards ceremony, and lots of fundraising fun to be had – see you there!
AGM and APA...
Category: Articles
Forty-Two Men Were Saved
EARLY on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the 20,125-ton Liberian tanker World Concord, which was in ballast and bound from Liverpool to Syria, broke in two during storms of exceptional violence in the Irish Sea.
Category: Services
Lifeboat Classes
a s p o t t e r ' s g u i d e Why are there so many different designs of lifeboat when the purpose of every lifeboat is so similar-the saving of life at sea? Surely, one might think, all lifeboats are designed to weather the worst of...
Category: Articles
New Device for Helicopter Rescues
LIEUT.-COMMANDER JOHN SPKOVLE, R.N., Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Air Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, in Sussex, has designed a scoop for rescu- ing people from the sea by helicop- ter.
When not in use the net of the...
Category: Articles
The Longest Loaf In the World: Coventry Mercia Round Table Giving Effect to An Idea By Tom Commander Was Responsible In 1975 for a New Entry In the Guinness Book Of
The longest loaf in the world: Coventry Mercia Round Table, giving effect to an idea by Tom Commander, was responsible in 1975 for a new entry in the Guinness Book of Records, and for the raising of about £4,000 for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs