LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
North East South East: the Naming of Humber Lifeboat September 10 and Newhaven Lifeboat September 18
THERE WAS MUCH that was unusual in the naming ceremony of the 54' Arun lifeboat City of Bradford IV on Saturday, September 10; but then, there is much that is unusual about Humber, her station. Isolated at the seaward end of a long...
Category: Inaugurations
Sigurd Golje One of Sweden's Latest Rescue Cruisers Will Be Visiting Plymouth In July In January She Was Breaking Ice In the Bothnian Gulf
Sigurd Golje, one of Sweden's latest rescue cruisers, will be visiting Plymouth in July. In January she was breaking ice in the Bothnian Gulf.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fund Raisers
Coffee mates Pupils from Derwentwater Infants School, all aged between five and six years old, ran a parents' coffee morning last November, baking cakes and serving their guests themselves. Parents jumped at the chance to be served by...
Category: Articles
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat International By Commander Peter D Sturdee Obe Rn
FIRST EVER LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION PLYMOUTH: JULY 19 - AUGUST 17LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL is the slogan chosen for the International Lifeboat Exhibition which is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, from July 19 to August 17. It is...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Category: Services
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Walter Jonas Oxley of Walton and Frinton, who has been coxswain since the beginning of 1947. Before that he served as bowman for nearly four years and as second coxswain for more than ten years. While...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1956 80,491 Notes of the Quarter THE summer months of 1956 were exceptionally...
Category: Articles
Above: Roy Castle and the Crew of Yarmouth Lifeboat at the Making of the Shipshapes Video for Children
Above: Roy Castle and the crew of Yarmouth lifeboat at the making of the Shipshapes video for children.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles