LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Marquis of Normanby
The Marquis of Normanby was elected to the Committee of Management in 1972. He became a Vice President in 1984 and was elected Life Vice President in 1987..
Category: Obituaries
The Wife of the Life-Boat Man
THE Life-boat goes o'er the stormy sea, for a ship is in distress; The gun booms out on the water wild, and the brave men closer press; And John has gone with the other men away from our fireside warm, Out where the maddened breakers...
Category: Poetry
RIDING TO THE RESCUE
‘You bet!’ That’s what a group of local lads said when challenged to undertake a gruelling bike ride from Arbroath to Dobbies at Ethiebeaton Park – and back – late last summer. Their combined pedal-power raised a whopping £563, which...
Category: Articles
The Rnli's Jubilee Tribute to Hm the Queen Reflects the Great Support Given to the Lifeboat Service By Various Members of the Royal Family During Her Majesty's Reign
The RNLI's Jubilee tribute to HM The Queen reflects the great support given to the lifeboat service by various members of the Royal Family during Her Majesty's reign.... On a recent visit to the Isle of Scilly, HRH The Prince of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Screw Steamship Ingerid
The service of the same Life-boat on the 20th January, is thus reported in The East Anglian Daily Times :— "Those who were on Harwich pier between nine and ten on the morning of the 21st January, will not readily forget the scene...
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form,, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
The Enterprise of Dublin
A schooner was observed ashore on the Causeway on the morning of the 12th March last, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a rough sea. The Lifeboat Christopher Bmon put off at 7.30, and found that the crew of the vessel, which was the...
After the Rescue
The Walton and Frinton motor life-boat" E.M.E.D." refuelling after the service to the " Esterel.". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Polar Challenge
RNLI staff members Clare Kavanagh and Philippa Thompson, along with friend Jocie Robertson, have become the first all-female team to take on the Polar Challenge. The intrepid trio, dubbed the eg arctic angels, set off on their challenge, not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of James Thomas Upperton, the coxswain of the Shoreham Harbour life-boat. Cox- swain Upperton first joined the crew in 1910. He became second coxswain in 1940 and in 1947 he was appointed coxswain. He is a holder...
Category: Articles