LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
How many branches have had a whole island put at their disposal for a picnic supper? Broadstone branch had such an honour when Mr and Mrs H. J.
Palmer kindly allowed them to use Round Island in Poole Harbour in...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Lexicon
Sea users have a language all of their own, and when you add the terms brought in by new technology and the demands of a specialised operation such as the lifeboat service the potential for confusion can be enormous! In The Lifeboat we try...
Category: Articles
Harbour Rescue In Darkness
COXSWAIN/MECHANIC Eric T. Offer, of Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution for a shore boat service in which he rescued two men who got into difficulties at night in the harbour.
At...
Category: Services
Fidget
Yacht sinks in gale THE 30ft yacht. Fidget, of stout construction, was on passage from Gosport to Plymouth on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985, when she hit a huge crest south of Gara Rock, near Salcombe.
Within one...
Spirit
spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...
Category: Articles
Obituary: Richard Evans BEM
Richard Evans BEM: a legendary lifeboatman It is with great sadness that theLifeboat reports the death of Richard Evans, aged 96, coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat from 1954 to 1970 and holder of two RNLl Gold Medals.
As well as...
Category: Obituaries
Your Letters
More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
Category: Correspondence
Ceremonies
FlamborOUgh - Atlantic 75 Jason Logg It was a cool and windy morning at South Landing, Flamborough on 18 June 1994 for the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Atlantic 75 lifeboat Jason Logg - but fortunately the rain stayed...
Category: Inaugurations
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water. Second Article
IN our last Number we published some remarks on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, embodying the substance of inquiries made on various parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom, together with our own comments on the same...
Category: Articles
Elmela (1)
Aground on Goodwins REPORTS OF SHIP'S LIGHTS in the vicinity of East Goodwin Buoy were passed to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2130 on Saturday December 10, 1977. The East Goodwin...