LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr E J Sage
Mr E J Sage, secretary to appeals sub-committee of Southend station branch from 1966. He was assistant branch secretary from 1952 to 1966. Mr Sage was awarded a silver badge in 1966 and a gold badge in 1987..
Category: Obituaries
Mrs E Horry
August 1983 Mrs E. Horry, a president of Skegness ladies' guild since 1974 and chairman from 1961 to 1973; she had been a founder member of the guild in 1960 after serving for a number of years as a member of Skegness station branch...
Category: Obituaries
Drifting in the dark
Two 13-year-olds found themselves drifting out to sea in the dark on the evening of 7 September.
Wearing only Summer clothes, they thought they had secured their inflatable dinghy close to the shore near Hove but later...
Category: Articles
Just In Case:
Just in case: a happy Tony Hunter (below right) the RNLI's chief buyer, stores, receives a case of brandv from David Shepherd, brand manager for Martell Cognac, a bottle of which is carried on all large lifeboats. The cognac has been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In deep water
Few people living inland would expect to rely on the RNLI to keep safe in their own communities but this was the reality for many driven from their homes by fl ooding in September 2008. The town of Morpeth, Northumberland, was worst hit when...
Category: Articles
A Big Increase In the World's Shipping
THE new volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping which have just been published record the very interesting fact that during the past year the total tonnage of the world has been increased by 408,540 tons, nearly three times as big an...
Category: Articles
Passages of Life-Boats In the Gales. Port Patrick, Troon, and Moelfre
THREE new Motor Life-boats which left the building yard at Cowes for their Stations during the gales—the 40-feet Watson Life-boats for Port Patrick (Wigtownshire), Troon (Ayrshire) and Moelfre (Anglesey)—were subjected to as severe a test as...
Category: Articles
In Case of Accident
The Penlee life-boat standing by near the lighthouse while the supplies are dropped. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats In July, August and September, 1956. 290 Lives Rescued
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Category: Services
In This Issue
Feature: Rapid response 2 The RNLI's flood relief work at home and abroad News 7 Including the latest on the new Tamar class Books 12 Including a fitting tribute to the late Helen Tew Feature: 'Gallant rescue by ladies' 14...
Category: Contents