LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blooming Marvellous
The first RNLI lifeboat and slipway to be depicted entirely in flowers made its debut at the Chelsea Flower Show at the end of May.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cromer Design Award
Pictured above is the Council's Conservation and Design Manager together with Mrs Blanche Allen, widow of Graham Allen, presenting the award plaque to project architect Steve Bond and the design team.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituary: Derek Calderwood
Man of Grace dies Derek Calderwood, former honorary curator of the Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh and tireless fundraiser for the RNLI has died.
Derek, curator of the museum from 1984 until 1995, was responsible for the...
Category: Obituaries
Norman Canning,
Norman Canning, founder member and former secretary of the Gravesend branch from 1970 until 1992. Norman was awarded the silver badge in 1989 and remained active on the committee until his death..
Category: Obituaries
Rye Remembered
Popular Warwick folk band, Meet on the Ledge, have included a track on their new CD which tells the story of the 1928 Rye Harbour lifeboat tragedy.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
40 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1953 In an issue which reports the capsize of a modern fast lifeboat it is interesting to read the remarks of the then Chief Inspector of Lifeboats onthesubjectofself-righting and the design of lifeboats...
Category: Articles
A Typhoon Aeroplane
FEBRUARY 3RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
The life-boat coxswain and others were at the life-boat station when, at 3.40 in the afternoon, they saw a Typhoon aeroplane, flying low, crash in the sea. A moderate southwest wind was...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
FEBRUARY 22ND. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless before she reached the position given.- Rewards, £12 5s. 6d..
A Mosquito Aeroplane
JULY 28TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A Mosquito aeroplane had crashed near the shore at Bacton. The life-boat found only wreckage, but two bodies were recovered by the police. - Rewards, £3 18s..
An Aeroplane (3)
FEBRUARY 1ST. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the naval authorities recalled the life-boat. - Rewards, £29 17s..