LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
White's Building Yard at Cowes
White's building yard at Cowes. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SUNSHINE greeted lifeboat people from all parts of the country who began to gather on South Bank, by the River Thames, early on Tuesday May 11 for what was to be a most moving and memorable day.
It was a day which...
Category: Awards
The Duke of Montrose
THE DUKE OF MOXTROSE, who had been associated with the Life-boat Service for nearly fifty years and had been Treasurer of the Institution and Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, died on the 20th of January, 1954.
He...
Category: Obituaries
People and Places
Keeping it in the family! Stephen Simmons, new recruit of Sheringham lifeboat crew, not only has all the skills required to be a lifeboatman but also has lifesaving in his blood - he joins his father, the helmsman of the lifeboat, and elder...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : JOHN C. BYFORD, 6} years coxswain, 15} years second coxswain, and 18} years bowman of the Walton and...
Category: Awards
The Loss of the Pandora
DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...
Category: Articles
Hull Trawler "Finmark" Ashore on Kettleness Point
The Ronswick (Yorkshire) Life-boat was unable to get to the wreck and was driven ashore, 8th February, 1926.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fictional Ennui's Point Coxswain Jack Tustin
Fictional Ennui's Point coxswain. Jack Tustin played by Philip Madoc (I), and factual Mumbles coxswain, Derek Scott, together 'aboard' the mock-up stern cabin on display at Earls Court.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Ramsgate Life-Boat
THE following is the Coxswain's report of the important services rendered on the night of 3rd Dec. last, by the Ramsgate life-boat, to the passengers of the emigrant ship Fusilier, of London; and to the crew of the ship Denierara, of...
Category: Services
Letters
In all respects ready for sea I was interested to read the article on survey and maintenance of the offshore fleet in the autumn edition of THE LIFEBOAT. Certainly the work involved in the various surveys is enormous, and it is useful to...
Category: Correspondence