LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jane Roberts
Write a letter to the Lincolnshire Echo and the chances are you are unwittingly helping the RNLI. Jane Roberts, who works there as a copy taker, cuts the stamps off the envelopes and adds them to her collection. In six months she has... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Going for Broke
Walkers from Lloyds brokers Sneath Kent and Stuart took part in the 1991 Royal British Legion (Lloyds of London branch) city walk on 19 October to raise money for the Legion and the lifeboats.
To distinguish themselves from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Speed Boat (1)
AUG. 14TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 9.5 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse. The weather was fine and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Thomas...
Vliestroom, Kalso and Karanan
MARCH 3 1 ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 5.55 P.M. a steamer was seen to be ashore at Trefusis Point Falmouth Harbour, and at 6.10 P.M. the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched. A southerly gale was...
An Aeroplane (69)
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL. At 10.3 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed about four miles N.W. of Cape Cornwall, and the motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 10.45 P.M. The sea was calm, with a light...
Torbay
TORBAY, DEVON On the 17th December, 1944, the Torbay life-boat rescued the crew of fourteen of the tug Empire Alfred, and the crew of five of yard craft 345.
COXSWAIN FREDERICK C. SANDERS was awarded the silver...
Category: Medals
Bar (1)
APRIL 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX, AND WALMER, KENT. The French trawler Bar had gone ashore near Beachy Head, but she refloated without help, and the Newhaven life-boat returned to her station. The trawler had been reported to Walmer as ashore...
Bronze Medal. for Wick Coxswain.
Coxswain Neil Stewart, of Wick, Caithness-shire, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing 31 men from a motor barge and a tug which had gone on the rocks in a gale. In the first glimmer of daylight the coxswain took...
Category: Articles
45 Years -- Still Singing
Mr. J. W. Kelly, of Peel, in the Isle of Man, has now sung the solo in the hymn "The Life-boat" at the annual Life-boat Sunday Service at Peel every year for 45 years. Mr. Brian Leadley, who ha* been H.M. coastguard at Peel for 23...
Category: Articles
Stone, steel and lifeboats
Our All-weather Lifeboat Centre (ALC) in Poole, Dorset, is really taking shape, and the project team are on target to open the doors for lifeboat maintenance in January 2015. The ALC will go on to build six all-weather lifeboats a year,...
Category: Articles