LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dr Who's Indispensible Mechanical Partner Has Turned His Attention Towards the Rnli Alan Dixon Proprietor of Huddersfield's Model Centre Has Made a Full Working Replica of K9 and Will Be Sen
Dr Who's indispensible mechanical partner has turned his attention towards the RNLI.
Alan Dixon, proprietor of Huddersfield's model centre, has made a full working replica of K9 and will be sending him out to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
David Steenvoorden
Helmsman Cleethorpes D class lifeboat Bronze medal 30 July 1989 In confused seas of up to 10ft and winds which touched Storm Force 10 Helmsman Steenvoorden searched for and rescued five canoeists. Driving rain reduced visibility almost to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Rodney Terry of St.Mary's Isles of Scilly
Coxswain Rodney Terry of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. He first joined the lifeboat crew in 1965, became second coxswain in 1984 and coxswain in 1985. In his working life he is a foreman stevedore, responsible for supervising the loading... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wroxham and District Branch
This magnificent knitted quilt bedspread is the creation of the ladies of Wroxham and District branch. /( caused £700 worth of raffle tickets to be sold for a chance to own it when the branch held a luncheon at the Norfolk Broads Yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Edward King
John Edward King, coxswain of Bridlington lifeboat from 1965 to 1975 after serving as bowman from 1959 to 1963 and second coxswain from 1963 to1965. He was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1967 and 1969; the...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain Michael Grant Selsey
Coxswain Michael Grant, Selsey On September 9, 1983, Coxswain Grant rescued six from a grounded yacht, Enchantress of Hamble, in a southerly force 8 gale, darkness and large, breaking seas. The 48ft 6in Oakley class lifeboat Charles Henry... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flagstaff Memorial:
Flagstaff memorial: The Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Peter Mumford, blesses the flagstaff mounted in Truro Cathedral and made as a memorial to the lifeboatmen who died in the Penlee lifeboat disaster of December 1981. The wood for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gpt to the Rescue
Employees of the Poole-based telecommunications company GPT recently donated £300 to the Institution. The money will be used to purchase much needed protective clothing for lifeboatmen.
Brian Woolgar from GPT is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ship’s Life-Boat
DECEMBER 30TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. The sound of a horn and shouts for help were heard at eight in the evening, and the life-boat put out at once. She saw a ship’s life-boat with seven men on board, but before she...
Patriot
OCTOBER 2 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. The fishing boat Patriot, with a crew of five, left in the early morning to take relief keepers to the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse. She had not returned by 8.30 that evening and anxiety was felt for...