LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Visiting Lifeboats came to Poole on passage to or from Jersey from West Germany and the Netherlands
THE WEST GERMAN lifeboat Eiswette visited Poole on May 30 and 31 before sailing to Jersey for St Helier lifeboat station's centenary celebrations on June 1 and 2. While in Poole, Carl Max Vater, vice-chairman, and other senior officials...
Category: Articles
Management of Boats In Broken Water
COPIES of the following circular, relative to the proper management of boats when running to the shore before a heavy broken sea, have been forwarded to the branches of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, with the view to its being...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (93)
JULY 14TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 5.39 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles away. She was a Lancaster bomber. At 5.52 came another message asking the life-boat to launch, and...
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT WORKS INSIDE SURF LINE TO SAVE FISHERMEN Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 gale Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following...
Category: Services
Still Doing Good Work In Retirement: Dowager Ex Rnlb Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn When Acting As One of the Escort Boats for the 1977 Gravesend to Greenwich A
Still doing good work in retirement: Dowager, ex RNLB Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, when acting as one of the escort boats for the 1977 Gravesend to Greenwich and back sponsored row, organised by Gravesend branch, towed in two boats with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Profile...
• COMMANDER Frederick R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., of Stratford Mill, Stratford- Sub-Castle, Salisbury, who may soon retire as deputy chairman of the R.N.L.I., was born in 1904. His interest in sailing goes back to the age of four, for his...
Category: Committee
Presentation By H.R.H. The Prince of Wales to a Gallant Life-Boat Coxswain
ON the 4th May, 1908, the Prince of Wales, who is the President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and takes the greatest interest in its work and welfare, graciously commanded Mr. William Owen, the Coxswain- Superintendent of the...
Category: Articles
Ships Which "Pass By on the Other Side."
an act of common humanity at what would seem a trifling cost ? The reasons operating on the mind of the man who thus " passes by on the other side " are these: public journals accounts given by sailors j l - That the loss of...
Category: Articles
Penarth - D Class
Guests and crew members with Penarth's new D class lifeboat at the handing over ceremony on 16 August 1989. Mrs Roma Cresswell and her husband John are in the centre flanked by crew members, with station honorary secretary Captain Graham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Turn to the centre Listings of the Lifeboat magazine and you may be amazed at how often lifeboats launch. Only a tiny proportion of these ever feature in the Lifeboat. Here's a snapshot of the wide range of other lifeboat services...
Category: Services