LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Calendar for 1931
THE Life-boat Calendar for 1931 is now ready. In previous years the calendars have reproduced paintings of Life-boat rescues. This year it is the portrait of a Life-boatman—a reproduction of a pen and ink drawing of the late Coxswain William...
Category: Advertisement
Mary Gowans and Trustful III
Aberdeen.—At 4.53 on the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, the Gregness coastguard reported that two fishing vessels were making for Aberdeen, as it was too dangerous to enter Stonehaven Harbour. The No.
1 life-boat...
Shoreline
SHORELINE IS GOING THROUGH One Of the most exciting periods of its life. At the end of August the new Shoreline 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat will be setting out on her delivery trip to Blyth and I am hoping to join her at Spurn Point for the...
Category: Articles
Obituary
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted...
Category: Obituaries
(Below) to Celebrate His 65Th Birthday and 50 Years of Lifeboat Service a Special Cake and Presentations for Alfred Payne Westonsuper- Mare's Coxswain from 1948 to 197
(Below) To celebrate his 65th birthday and 50 years of lifeboat service, a special cake and presentations for Alfred Payne, Westonsuper- Mare's coxswain from 1948 to 1970.
Mr Payne had been second coxswain before that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Boys stranded rr WAS AN HOUR before high water on the afternoon of Sunday July 20, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Westonsuper- Mare lifeboat station was contacted by Swansea Coastguard to be told that two boys were...
Category: Services
New Life-Boats
Two new self-righting steel life-boats, each nearly 50 ft. in length and capable of carrying up to 100 survivors, 28 of them under cover, have been allocated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to stations in...
Category: Articles
Xepha and Sea Keveral
Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...
Fourteen Rescued from German Ship
AT 6.15 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig, Inverness-shire, life- boat station, Mr. R. Watt, was told by the coastguard that a German ship was ashore on the island of Rhum fourteen miles away....
Category: Services