LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 10.20 p.m.
on 6th September, 1966, news was received that a patient on the Isle of Sanday needed medical attention. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman slipped her moorings at 10.45 in a gale...
Bobbie
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 3.49 p.m.
on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that the motor launch Bobbie was firing distress signals three to four miles east south east of Ramsey harbour. The lifeboat Thomas Corbett was...
Ashdene, of Sunderland
Amble, Northumberland - At 1.14 a.m. on i5th July, 1967, it was learnt that a sick man aboard the motor vessel Ashdene of Sunderland required urgent medical assistance. The life-boat Millie Walton, with a doctor on board, slipped her...
Olympic Hill
INJURED SEAMAN Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on yth June, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a seaman on board the Liberian tanker Olympic Hill required medical attention.
There was a light east-south-easterly breeze...
Cuthbert "Cubby" Cornell
Cuthbert "Cubby" Cornell, coxswain of Blackpool lifeboat from 1955 until his retirement in 1964. He joined the crew in 1923, and was second coxswain from 1947 to the end of 1954..
Category: Obituaries
Aberdeen - D Class Trevor Edwin Jones
Sally Trewren, the 12-year-old daughter of ex-Coxswain Norman Trewren, whose book funded the lifeboat, names Aberdeen's new D class with a radio microphone recording her every word.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clacton's New Atlantic 21 Lifeboat Institute of London Underwriters
Clacton's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat, Institute of London Underwriters, waits on the pier slipway during the naming ceremony ready to launch for a short demonstration. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Edmunds,
John Edmunds, coxswain of Hastings lifeboat from 1961 to 1971. He joined the crew in the 1940's and served as bowman from 1960 until his appointment as coxswain..
Category: Obituaries
Keith Graham, Coxswain of Exmouth Lifeboat, Sue Pollard and Vic Cocker, Chief Executive of Severn Trent Water
Keith Graham, coxswain of Exmouth lifeboat, Sue Pollard and Vic Cocker, chief executive of Severn Trent Water and chairman of the Forward Birmingham campaign, at its launch at the NEC.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Man In Towcester
Our man in Towcester Despite suffering a stroke some 10 years ago, wheelchair bound Colin Baldry remains as the RNLI's 'man in Towcester'. Colin, pictured here with Mrs Dora Gamble on Towcester flag day last year, does not get... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs