LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Antlers at the ready!
Our annual Reindeer Runs have become a key part of the festive period for supportive runners. Herds of people of all ages – sporting red antlers – brightened the Winter landscape as they tackled 1K, 5K or 10K courses in Cambridgeshire, Co...
Category: Articles
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
SICK MAN LANDED At 11.40 a.m. on 2ist May, 1965, the honorary secretary received a message that there was a sick man on board the Coningbeg light-vessel. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched on the ebbing tide at 11.55. There was...
Inset - One Team Puts the Boat Out for British Beef
Inset - one team puts the boat out for British beef in the Marlow raft rmce.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Skye Passenger Ferry
Prompt action by lifeboat saves Skye car ferry from rocks Mallaig Scotland South Division The deputy second coxswain of the Mallaig lifeboat has received a letter of thanks after his prompt action when in command of the relief Arun class...
In with the new
A sense of new beginnings makes Spring a good season for the naming ceremonies of new lifeboats and this year was no exception.
Namings included D class lifeboats for Fowey, Redcar, Clifden, Aldeburgh and the relief fl eet...
Category: Articles
A Call for the Life-Boat
Dark is the night, and fierce are the winds— , On, gallant bark! to the sinking ship, When lo, a cry Nor wind, nor wave Kings wildly forth—"A ship on the rocks, | Can daunt the hearts...
Category: Poetry
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1936
1st February to 30th April, 1936.
Greater London.
On 1st March the following branches in the South-East of England were transferred to Greater London : Southend, Romford and Hornchurch, Upminster and...
Category: Branches
The Maggie Jane
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.1 early on the morning of the 1st of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning red flares about half-a-mile south-south-west of Lowestoft...
The Fund Raisers
Tall orders Although somewhat dwarfed by the largest "tall ship" in the world, the 386ft Russian Sedov, volunteers manning the stand from branches and guilds in the Tyne area were thrilled to sell over £2,000 worth of...
Category: Articles
The Early Days Recalled
TWO former operational staff were instrumental in convincing the RNLI of the need to introduce inflatables into the fleet. Lt David Stogdon, an inspector of lifeboats and later Superintendent of Cowes Base, where he led the design and...
Category: Articles