LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
40 Years of Service
STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...
Category: Committee
H.M.S. Birdham
At 2.52 p.m. on 23rd June, 1967, a message was received that a naval vessel was on fire off the Cock of Arran. An amended position of the casualty was given as between Skipness Point and Lochranza. The life-boat City of Glasgow II slipped...
Venturess
RED FLARE At 10.35 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the assistant honorary secretary's wife informed the honorary secretary that she had seen a red flare in the direction of the bay. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at ii o'clock in a...
Keeping History Preserved
Keeping history preserved I read the feature on the National lifeboat Collection at Chatham with great interest, unfortunately the collection does not include the 'jewel in the crown', the oldest existing lifeboat in the world - the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Dinghy and a Walrus Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 12.40 in the afternoon the Bowmore Police reported that a rubber dinghy with men aboard had been seen eight miles south-west of Oversea Island off the west coast of Islay. A gale was blowing from...
A Boat (5)
DECEMBER 25TH. - LOWESTOFT SUFFOLK.
At 3.45 P.M. a man told the life-boat, coxswain that a small boat was in difficulties in the South Roads, and this was reported to the naval duty officer who kept the boat under...
Seaside singing
The Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival took place in June, with 23 groups from around Europe taking part. The event is one of the world’s biggest maritime music festivals, and one of its main aims is to raise money for the...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Sir CHARLES WILSON, LL.D., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the dis- tinguished services which he has rendered for very many years past, first as Honorary Secretary of the Leeds Life-boat...
Category: Awards
Timothy's toughest plot
At sea, things don’t always go according to script – which is what led Timothy and Shane Spall to head offshore
‘If I get better, we will get a boat,’ declared Timothy Spall. It was 1996. A...
Category: Articles
Flying Fish, of Whitby
On the 10th November, the brig Flying fish, of Whitby, ran ashore, in a sinking state, in a heavy E.S.E. gale, near Filey. The life-boat of the Institution stationed there was, as soon as possible, launched through a high surf, and proceeded...