LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John John
John John, second coxswain of Tenby lifeboat from 1982. He joined the crew of the Watson lifeboat in 1963 and was also a member of the station's D class lifeboat crew from 1973. In 1983 he was awarded a long service badge..
Category: Obituaries
Another Success for Queen Victoria
The beautifully restored 1887 pulling and sailing lifeboat, Queen Victoria, was in action again on 30 May when she was hauled overland from Bembridge to Sandown on the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria is thought to be the oldest surviving RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Mudeford - South Division Mudeford's lifeboat history dates back to 1935 when a storm broached Mudeford Sandbank leaving the sheltered beaches exposed to the open...
Category: Articles
Crucial Skills
More than 90 people from all over Britain attended a highly successful sea safety weekend at The Lifeboat College, Poole, in March this year. Organised in conjunction with Practical Boat Owner magazine, the weekend was the first of its kind.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (32)
NOV. 19TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea. The life-boat could find no trace of her, and news was later received that the aeroplane herself was picked up by a trawler, but that its crew was missing. ...
An Aeroplane (129)
AUGUST 30TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A British bombing aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but another boat had saved four of the crew from a rubber dinghy, and the fifth man could not be found.- Rewards, £12 16s. 6d..
A Vessel (6)
JANUARY 29TH. - CADGWITH, CORNWALL.
The naval authorities asked the life-boat to investigate a vessel reported to be to the S.S.E., but she found nothing.- Rewards, £28 8s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (30)
MARCH 10TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
A damaged aeroplane was expected to come down in the sea and the life-boat went out to stand by, but she was recalled by wireless as the aeroplane had landed elsewhere.- Rewards, £9 19s....
An Aeroplane (39)
OCTOBER 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but half an hour after the life-boat put out she was recalled by wireless by the naval officer in charge at Ramsgate. - Rewards, £15..
A British Spitfire Aeroplane and a German Heinkel (1)
APRIL 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. A British Spitfire fighter aeroplane and a German Heinkel bomber had come down in the sea thirty miles east of Hartlepool, but the five German airmen and the British pilot were rescued...