LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters to the Editor
SIR. - Since it would appear that no record has been made of the Institu- tion's earliest effort at mechanization, I am most interested in preparing a paper covering the inception of the steam life-boat; its design; building and method...
Category: Correspondence
United States Coast Guard: a Glimpse By Trevor Ramsden Station Administrative Officer Padstow
THE SIGHT AND SMELL of bacon and hash browns at 90 degrees in the shade was a bit overpowering as a greeting to Grand Haven Coast Guard Station. A sympathetically smiling cook soon corrected my mistaken entrance and directed me to the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock 'and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles
RNLI FAMILY: Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Tying the knot
Congratulations to Bundoran Crew Members Laura McNulty and Richard Gillespie, who got married in July. Lifeboating must be in their blood, because both Laura and Richard have family on the crew. Laura’s dad,...
Category: Articles
Jupiter
On the 8th March, shortly before 1 A.M., signals of distress were shown from the barque Jupiter, of Liverpool, bound from Hamburg to the Tyne in ballast, -which, was ashore on the Sand Bigg, Goswick.
The Grace Darling...
Omer Denise
The steam trawler Omer Denise, of Ostend, while in ballast from Ostend to the fishing grounds, ran on the rocks at Meres, near Coverack, on the 4th March. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing with a moderate sea, and it was misty. The...
Search for Aircraft
IN the last quarter of 1957 there were a number of long and exacting searches by life-boats after aircraft had crashed. Unfortunately, as happens so often when aircraft come down in the sea, it was impossible to rescue any survivors. Details...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Coverack (Cornwall) life-boat being launched on service and...
Category: Advertisement
'SUNSET OVER SAMSON': the Isles of Scilly ladies' guild has produced a long playing record to be sold in aid of the RNLI and the first record was presented to Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge and his wife Pat by the guild's souvenir secretary, Mrs Clare J
'SUNSET OVER SAMSON': The Isles of Scilly ladies' guild has produced a long playing record to be sold in aid of the RNLI and the first record was presented to Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge and his wife Pat by the guild's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Senex Fidelis and Thirst Quencher
Just because a lifeboat has not reached her new home and been officially put on station does not stop her being a lifeboat, as these two photographs show.
The Severn class allocated to Harwich on the east coast was taking...