LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain/Mechanic John E. Bryan, of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami. He was appointed in May, 1967, having previously been a full time mechanic of the former conventional life-boat. Since April, 1961, when he...
Category: Articles
Albert Haines,
March 1996 Albert Haines, ex-coxswain of Dungeness lifeboat. Albert's service with the Institution began in 1941 as a crew member of Dungeness lifeboat, becoming bowman in 1947. In 1965 he was appointed second coxswain with promotion to...
Category: Obituaries
A vintage legacy
Our lifesavers received a remarkable gift in May – two multi-million-pound Ferraris. Northampton businessman and RNLI supporter Richard Colton left his treasured sports cars to the RNLI in his Will, asking that money from their sale be used...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down.—About three in the morning on the 15th of March, 1950, the Orlock Head coastguard tele- phoned that red flares had been seen to the eastward. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat Civil Service No. 5 left her...
Big sick, little sick
The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’
In 2007, John...
Category: Articles
PASSENGER BOAT EVACUATION ST MARY’S
ST MARY’S | 15 MAY
With 48 passengers onboard, a passenger boat hit trouble off the Isles of Scilly’s Western Rocks, and her skipper sent out a mayday call. Nearby vessels arrived moments later, with a RIB pilot using his boat to...
Category: Articles
Yachts
New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.7 p.m. on 4th August, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Aberdovey IRB had launched and that the Aberystwyth IRB was about to launch to search for several yachts which were missing and...
Rfd Inflatables Limited
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Category: Advertisement
Purple Heather
DEC. 23RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 7 P.M. the coastguard reported the motor trawler Purple Heather, of Lowestoft, ashore at Corton. The weather was very cold and foggy, with a heavy ground swell and a southwesterly breeze....
A Fishing Coble
15th November. A Filey fishing coble was missing, but she was found by the Filey life-boat.—Rewards, £18 11s. (An account of the Filey service appears on page 210.).