LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
William Dryden
AUGUST 1989: William Dryden, former mechanic of Whitby lifeboat. He was assistant mechanic from 1938 to 1951 when he was appointed mechanic until his retirement in 1967. He was awarded a bronze medal in 1940 and two Royal Humane Society...
Category: Obituaries
An Eerie Sensation With Canvas Screens Over All Her Wheelhouse Windows the Princess Hoyal
An eerie sensation. With canvas screens over all her wheelhouse windows The Princess Hoyal makes her way out to sea from Poole Harbour for blind pilotage exercises. Every aid to navigation is brought into use in the drill.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Memory of the Life-Boats at Dunkirk
THE Institution has received over £9 from brother officers and friends of the late Major Charles Lawless Saunders, R.A.S.C. Those gifts were sent, in place of flowers for his funeral, at his own request, in gratitude to the Life-boat...
Category: Donations
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the Storms of January Last
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 4th January, 1881, at 3.45 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Willie and Arthur proceeded to the Asque Spit and found the s.s. Brazilian, of Barrow, ashore there.
After the boat's...
Category: Services
Veteran Life-Boatmen's Dinner
ONE of the most unusual reunions in the history of the Isle of Wight life-boat service took place in October when the directors of the Isle of Wight County Press entertained nineteen veterans of the old pulling and sailing life-boats to a...
Category: Articles
The Panamanian Steamer Buccaneer and Tanker Johannishus.
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a wireless message had been intercepted from the Panamanian steamer Buccaneer that she had caught fire after being' in collision with the...
Progress and Loch Kanza Castle (1)
New Brighton, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— On the 23rd November, 1938, the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat rescued the crew of three of the fishing boat Progress, of Hoylake, and the crew of four of the auxiliary schooner Loch Kanza Castle, of...
A helping hand for flood rescue
A hardware firm that has put firm support behind the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) is on course to raise £80,000 this year.
Toolstation is the FRT’s sponsor, and staff have been boosting funding for the team’s...
Category: Articles
Testing her mettle
The new RNLI memorial sculpture at Poole encapsulates the charity’s heritage and purpose – but who is behind its design?
It’s 7am and there’s a salty breeze blowing across the flats of Sittingbourne at the edge of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
GALLANT hearts are pulling— Pulling might and main, Through the boiling breakers, Through the blinding rain; Anxious eyes are watching— Watching from the shore, Fiercely blows the tempest, Loud the ocean's roar.
Gallant...
Category: Poetry