LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nick of time
A boat with its own fascinating RNLI history set out on a perfect day last Summer. Little did her crew know it was to be her last voyage …
‘We set off in ideal conditions – you couldn’t have...
Category: Articles
Lewes Arms
Lewis Carroll would have been surprised to see the Lewes Arms adaptation of Alice in Lewes Land. Licensee, Paul Stonehouse, alias Flopsie the White Rabbit, his wife Pauline, the Queen of Hearts, plus six members of Lewes and District... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maud Smith Award
Second Coxswain Stephen Whittle and Assistant Mechanic John Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, share the Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1964. The award is an annual one made under the...
Category: Awards
Sheffield Park
The gardens shown the public in aid of the Life-boat Service (See page 152). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sherkin Mail Boat
Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1961, the honorary secretary learnt that the Sherkin mail boat was in difficulties.
Her engine had failed, and she was drifting ashore. The life-boat...
Maud Mary
DEC. 17TH. -POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, AND SWANAGE, DORSET. The schooner Maud Mary, flying the Polish flag, had gone ashore west of the Old Harry Rocks, but the crew got away in their own boat.
- Rewards: Poole and Bournemouth...
With Great Glee and Satisfaction Three Young Lads and Their Fathers Knock Down a Pile of Coins Worth £126 Which Had Been Amassed By the Senior Ratings of Hm Subma
With great glee and satisfaction three young lads and their fathers knock down a pile of coins worth £126 which had been amassed by the senior ratings of HM Submarine Courageous for Sheerness lifeboat. Doing a grand job of demolition... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Handing Over the Helm
Handing over the helm ~ Following the retirement of Skegness Coxswain/Mechanic Paul Martin, the new man at the helm is previous Second Coxswain John Irving (pictured left/.
Ray Chapman (right) who remains as senior helmsman... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boys of Longlands County Secondary School Made This Model Life-Boat Station
Boys of Longlands County Secondary School made this model life-boat station which was displayed at the Stourbridge R.N.L.I, branch annual meeting.
Boys showing Mrs. A. Wooldridge, M.B.E., the honorary secretary of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Seafarers all Kindly accept this 'widow's mite' in aid of your good service. I lost two brothers at sea and three uncles and my great grandfather served under Lord Nelson as a commander.
1 admire the bravery of...
Category: Correspondence