LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Maggie Melbourne,
Mrs Maggie Melbourne, Vice chairman and founder member of the Burton St Modwen branch. Maggie first became a member of the branch in the 1960s and continued to serve the committee with great dedication until her death..
Category: Obituaries
Ken Black
Ken Black rounds the Needles on his way to breaking the record time for circumnavigating the Isle of Wight on a sailboard. The challenge is laid down by Carlsberg who, because Ken was to donate his prize money to the RNLI, doubled the amount... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Norman
Save Our Pot Plants Margate's Mersey class lifeboat Leonard Kent was called to another sinking incident in the South East Division, this time on Boxing Day 1992.
The elderly 35ft motor cruiser Norman, with three people...
Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth
Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth Yarmouth's new £1.8m all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after Eric and Susan Hiscock, whose generous legacy provided the funding.
The naming ceremony was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Teignmouth
Teignmouth is one of several stations re-opened over the last decade to meet the demand for greater lifeboat cover. The station was closed in 1940 and when it was reopened in 1990 the old boathouse was rebuilt and renovated.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane
JANUARY 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.48 A.M. a message was received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Brighton Palace Pier.
light N.E. breeze was blowing, with moderate swell. At 12.20 P.M. the motor...
Emma and a Motor Boat
JUNE 2ND. - DOVER, KENT. The lifeboat rescued twenty-three men from the Swedish steamer Emma and fifteen. British soldiers from a disabled motor boat.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force...
A Fishing Boat (4)
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A local fisherman’s boat had got adrift and as the weather was too bad for another fishing boat to go out, the life-boat was lent to the men to recover the boat. - No rewards..
Silver Scale
NOVEMBER 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched in a heavy sea at 1.30 in the afternoon and stood by at the harbour mouth while the local fishing boat Silver Scale came in. She returned to her...
Woman in Water
The crew of Peterhead’s Tamar class lifeboat.
The Misses Robertson of Kintail, are pictured recovering a woman from the water into the Tamar’s inflatable daughter boat on 20 August.
Category: Articles