LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Posing for the Camera Are the 45 New Members of Storm Force
Posing for the camera are the 45 new members of Storm Force, all pupils at St Patrick's Primary School, Troon, Scotland. They are pictured with the coxswain of the local lifeboat, Ian Johnson (back row, left), the second coxswain Tom... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Matthew Lethbridge, of St.
Mary's, in the Scilly Isles. He has been an officer of the life-boat for 32 years. He served as second coxswain from 1920 to 1925, and since 1925...
Category: Articles
The Hurricanes In the West Indies
ALTHOUGH the scene of the recent terrible disasters, caused by the hurricanes in the West Indies, is far distant from the sphere of the operations of THE NATIONAL LIF£-BOAT INSTITUTION, which finds ample scope for the full exercise of...
Category: Articles
Touring Headquarters After the Third Lotterydraw June Whitfield Said How Much She Would Like to Go Out In a Lifeboat Arrangements Were Made for Her and Terry Scott
Touring headquarters after the third lotterydraw, June Whitfield said how much she would like to go out in a lifeboat. Arrangements were made for her and Terry Scott to go out on trials of the 50ft Thames class lifeboat which will be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Auxiliary Barge Pudge
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 24th of October, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the auxiliary barge Pudge, of London, which had a crew of two, had gone aground half a mile south of Saltfleet Haven. The...
Contributions from the Services.
The officers and men of the three fighting services have shown their gratitude by the way in which they responded in 1940 to the appeal which each year the Institution makes to them. The Navy and the Air Force contributed five times as much...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
In her presidential address at the Institution's annual general meeting on 21st March, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, called attention to the remark- able changes which have taken place during her presidency.
It was...
Category: Articles
The Line Delambre
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 5th February the police reported that Ryde Hospital had received a message from Niton Radio Station that the liner Delambre, of Liverpool, bound from London to the River Plate, was at anchor...
The Danish Schooner The Mogens Koch
Newhaven (Sussex).
On 7th December, the day on which the gales reached their height, the Newhaven Motor Life-boat was called out just before 7.30 in the morning to the help of a Danish schooner, the Mogens Koch, which had...
From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
Category: Articles