LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your shout
The ‘shout’ came at 3.20pm one Friday. In minutes, we were aboard RNLB Realistic and I was quickly settled in the Helmsman’s seat, the Coxswain by my side. In front of me was a comforting array of dials and screens – radar, GPS, compass,...
Category: Articles
Muck and Brass:
Muck and brass: a pile of horse manure was donated to the Royal Tunbridge Wells and District branch and sold by the sack at a coffee morning held at the home of Mrs Joan Pearce, in the village of Front, Sussex. The event brought in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th January, 1882.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
He expressed his high appreciation of the honour the Committee had conferred on him in electing him Deputy-Chairman of the...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th April, 1895.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence,...
Category: Committee
Letters
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.
Category: Correspondence
The Jadestar Glory
HEARING FROM the Marine Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) Shannon at 2106 on January 16 that Jadestar Glory was ashore, possibly on Roney Rock, the honorary secretary Arklow alerted the crew while trying to get further...
Invergordon By Dag Pike
THE CHANGING PATTERN of Casualties around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland has led to the replacement of many traditional lifeboats by the faster inshore lifeboats; they are more suited to the type of casualty involved. In the...
Category: Articles
Master and commander
An RNLI coxswain must be brave but what else does it take to inspire the confidence and trust of a modern-day crew?
On 9 July 2010, Mike Lawrence was not only in charge of Calshot’s Tyne class Alexander Coutanche but also...
Category: Articles
Admiralty Register of Wrecks for the Year 1852
THE Blue Book under the above title which is annually presented to Parliament has just been published for the year 1852.
It comes at an appropriate time. Wintry gales, long nights, and dark fogs are the fit accompaniments...
Category: Articles
The Best Essay
By SHEILA MARY WICKS (10|), The Heston Junior Mixed School, Heston, Middlesex.
"A GALLANT RESCUE." BY THE COXSWAIN OP A LIFE-BOAT.
IT was a dark, stormy night in the middle of a terrible...
Category: Articles