LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yachts and Dinghies
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Below Left - Committee Members of Dartford
Below left - committee members of Dartford and district branch dress up and rattle collecting buckets at the Dartford Show. The colourful bunch managed to raise £ 114 for lifeboat funds on the day.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Elvina
Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.50 p.m. on 26th July, 1967, news was given that the yacht Elvina, in a position four miles north north west of the life-boat house, was making no headway against the wind and tide and was drifting out to sea. Her...
New Appointments
The Institution has appointed Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D..R.N.R., who was its inspector of life-boats on the east coast, and before that inspector in Scotland, to be deputy chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Michelmore's place...
Category: Articles
Mrs Hale 84 Years Old and Almost Blind Nevertheless Made This Lovely Crochet Bedspread of 360 Separate Squares Raffled at a Small Function It Raised £50 for Ware
Mrs Hale, 84 years old and almost blind, nevertheless made this lovely crochet bedspread of 360 separate squares. Raffled at a small function it raised £50 for Ware branch.
With Mrs Hale is Pop David, aged 87, a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ellen
CARDIGAN.—About 2 P.M. on the 1st November it was reported that the smack Ellen, of Milford, which had during the day come up from the westward, and had brought up in the bay outside the bar, had hoisted a flag for resistance, and that she...
Payback Time
Payback time Sailor Graham Wills has always supported the RNLI but, as he tells Rory Stamp, a rather unpleasant experience led him to go a little further for the charity When the flashing blue light appeared through the darkness, Graham...
Category: Articles
Loch Wasdale
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD DECEMBER 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 3.50 in the morning the coastguard reported to the motor-mechanic of the life-boat signals of distress from a vessel in the direction of Buchan Ness. The...
Coxswain Jesse L. Salmon, Clacton-On-Sea
Coxswain Jesse L. Salmon, who died on 13th January, 1938, at the age of eighty-four, had a distinguished career. He was bowman of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat for just over a year, second coxswain for over fifteen years, and coxswain for...
Category: Obituaries
People and Places
Air Vice Marshal John Tetley, chairman of the RNLI's search and rescue committee, together with other members of the committee drew the winning tickets of the 73rd lifeboat lottery at Poole on 30 April 1996.
Supervising...
Category: Articles