LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
'There is another type of courage...
...the stoic acceptance of wives, husbands, partners and parents who never know whether their loved ones will return from a shout.'Another special kind of courage The courage of...
Category: Correspondence
The Lynmouth Disaster
THE life-boat station at Lynmouth, Devon, established in 1869, was closed in 1944 and the life-boat taken away.
Men of the crew are still living in the village. When the thunderstorms on Exmoor, and the flooding of the...
Category: Obituaries
Victory
On the 4th November, when the local motor fishing boat Victory was at sea, the weather broke and freshened with a gale from the eastward. A heavy sea was run- ning. A watch was kept, and at 1.30 P.M., when the Victory was seen in the offing,...
y Transfer
Newhaven’s Y boat (the small inflatable kept onboard a Severn class lifeboat) was used in a medical evacuation on 5 June.
A fisherman had been injured, falling from a quayside ladder while unloading his catch. The lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
The Story of the Barmouth Lifeboats by Jeff Morris A recent addition to the series of comprehensive booklets from the prolific Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society, this time chronicling the history of Barmouth's...
Category: Articles
The Oldest Life-Boat Collector
BY the death of Mr. Webster Hoare, of St. Albans, on 20th October, the Institution has lost its oldest collector.
Mr. Hoare was nearly 87, and for nearly 30 years had collected for the Institution.
On...
Category: Obituaries
The Lady Sheffield, of Manchester
By the death of Lady Sheffield on 4th January, has passed away, at the age of eighty, one of the oldest and most generous of the Institution's workers in the north of England, and one who will be remembered with gratitude not only for...
Category: Obituaries
Obituaries
Sir Peter Compston With deep regret we report the recent death of former RNLI Deputy Chairman, Vice Admiral Sir Peter Compston KCB.
Sir Peter had a long and distinguished career in the Royal Navy, including numerous...
Category: Obituaries
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th December, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: DECEMBER 1991 Miss G. MacDonald, founder of the Peebles branch in 1949. She was branch vice president from 1970 until a few weeks before her death when she became branch honorary life...
Category: Obituaries