LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jepa II
Hoylake, Cheshire - On the morning of 31st October, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that a motor cruiser was stranded off Spencer Spit. The West Kirby IRB was towed to Hoylake by road and launched at 11.25. There was a strong north...
Feature Buildling Reflections
It is hard to believe that a year has passed since I concluded my editorial circumnavigation of the RNLI's operational realm. In one respect time has passed quickly, with plenty still going on around the coasts and new, exciting...
Category: Articles
William
On the 30th October the ketch William, of Peterhead, attempted to make the harbour but was overpowered by the sea and driven against the South Pier.
The Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon at once proceeded to her assistance,...
Life-Boat Essay Competition
Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.
THE challenge shield and individual prizes won by Greater London schools in the Life-boat Essay Competition this year were presented by Major- General the Right Hon. J. E....
Category: Articles
Built for life
10 years ago, we opened our training centre of excellence. A decade on, what difference has RNLI College made?
There’s a small but unusual entry in the Winter 2012 launches feature of the...
Category: Articles
Flotilla Special
International Gathering The week of midsummer 1999 will be remembered for a very long time by thousands of lifeboat people from the UK and Republic of Ireland and right around the world The unprecedented spectacle of the lifeboat sail-past...
Category: Articles
Obituary
Sir Frederick Moneypenny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., of Belfast.
BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...
Category: Obituaries
Your Letters
Face in the cliffs Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat. Yet I wonder if any other readers noticed that just above the bow of the lifeboat, in the edge of the rugged...
Category: Correspondence
None (1)
Boy rescued TWO PEOPLE IN THE SEA at Rocky Valley, Bossiney, near Tintagel, 6.7 miles from Port Isaac, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Port Isaac lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1326 on Monday August 14,...
Northern Wave
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1957, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Northern Wave was ashore on the west side of Dunnet Bay.
At four o'clock the life-boat...