LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

voices Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery Have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was...

Ix April 1954 it was decided to make certain changes in the appointments of the life-boat district inspectors in view of the impending retirement of the Southern District Inspector. At the same time it was decided to reorganise the districts...

Whitby pulling lifeboat The photograph of Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT made me wonder whether she was the one that started my interest in the lifeboat service in 1919.

An RNLI team travelled to Bangladesh in March to help set up the country’s first lifesaving club. And, on 16 April, club member Mohammed Abdul Sukkur saved his first life, rescuing a drowning tourist from a rip...

On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.

Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...

In the period from Good Friday, i6th April to Easter Monday, 19th April, inclusive, there were twenty-seven launches by life-boats and eight launches by inshore rescue boats.

These services resulted in the saving of...

PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 78 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 79 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 82 AWARDS TO HONORARY WORKERS 90 NEW WAYS OF RAISING MONEY 91 FINANCIAL REPORT 94 FOCUS ON ILFRACOMBE ...

(below) Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson putting out to the help of a fishing boat. Robert and Ellen Robson remained on service at Whitby until 1957, and she is still housed in her old boathouse, which is now a museum. She is... - View image in PDF