LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A personal reflection from Paul Boissier
The RNLI’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Boissier is stepping down this year. Here is his take on the last decade
When Sir William Hillary founded the RNLI in 1824, he vowed that with courage, nothing is impossible. That...
Category: Articles
Bavington
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.—During the night of the 27th April the ketch Bavington, of Newcastle, while on a voyage from Middlesborough to Dundee, was wrecked on the North Steel rocks. A fierce gale, with heavy rain, was blowing from the E.S.E....
Mary
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.23 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1957, the Formby coastguard telephoned that one of the crew of the fishing boat Mary, of Liverpool, who had just waded ashore, had reported that the boat was aground with...
Amity
On the 14th June the smack Amity, of Aberyst- with, left Aberdovey for Rochester, while the wind was blowing from the N.W.
When near the Bar the wind suddenly shifted, and the strong ebb tide carried the vessel on to the...
Alderman Thomas E. Purdy, Colwyn Bay
By the death on 26th October, at the age of seventy-nine, of Alderman Thomas E. Purdy, J.P., president of the Colwyn Bay branch, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most distinguished honorary workers. For many years he worked...
Category: Obituaries
Increase In Widows' Pensions
BY a fleet order dated 15th June, 1939, the Admiralty increased the pensions of the widows of naval ratings as from the 1st June. The Institution pays to the widows and other dependents of life-boatmen who lose their lives on service the...
Category: Articles
Suzanna D.
Double call-out SHOREHAM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Newhaven lifeboat at 1634 on Sunday January 22,1984, that a trawler, Suzanna D had broadcast a MAYDAY. She was swamped and sinking two miles south west of Beachy Head and...
Rnli Kensington Branch
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Cedrington Court
JANUARY. 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.15 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the North Goodwin Light-vessel had reported that an explosion and repeated blasts on a steamer’s siren had been heard about three miles...
Obituary
ADMIRAL JOHN HALLIDAY CAVE, C.B., V.P.—The Institution has sustained a grievous loss through the death of Admiral Cave, who passed away at his residence, 17, Palace Gate, Kensington, on Sunday, the 31st March, in his 86th...
Category: Obituaries