LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ideal Home Exhibition
EARL'S COURT LONDON, MARCH 6-31 FOR THE FIRST TIME, the RNL1 had a stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition this year. Modest in size, and situated on the balcony floor, it was a market stall, colourful with souvenirs and Shoreline display....
Category: Articles
Shield for Best Wreck Service
MR. ERNEST MARPLES, Minister of Transport, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service for the year 1959/60 jointly to the Rattray Head and Fraserburgh life-saving appliance companies of H.M. Coastguard for the rescue of the crew of...
Category: Awards
David Wells, Has Been Helmsman of Clacton-On-Sea's Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
David Wells, has been helmsman of Clacton-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat and a crew member of the station's D class lifeboat since 1983. From 1972 he was a crew member of the station's allweather lifeboat which was replaced in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The King's Jubilee. An Old-Age Pensioner's Gift
AN anonymous gift of ten shillings has been received with the message : " A jubilee gift from an old-age pensioner of West Hampstead." Another anonymous gift, of half a crown, has come from another old-age pensioner, who wrote...
Category: Donations
Charles Dixon and the Golden Age of Marine Painting
Charles Dixon and the
Golden Age of Marine
Painting
by Stuart Boyd
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Charles Dixon was one of the greatest maritime artists, living from 1872 to...
Category: Articles
The Royal Air Force Steamer Cawley
Plymouth, Devon.—Early on the morning of the 27th January the Royal Air Force steamer Cawley, bound with stores and a crew of fourteen from Rosyth to Plymouth, ran ashore at Queen Ann's Battery. A strong S.W.
gale was...
A Royal Air Force Flying Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire. —• 20th September, 1938. A Royal Air Force flying-boat had crashed, and a search was made for two men who were missing from her, but without result.— Rewards, £15 8s. 6d..
The Five Masted Schooner Helen W. Martin
At 6.30 P.M. on the 18th November a telephone message was received, stating that a large vessel had struck a mine and was at anchor about three miles off Orfordness. As the amount of damage was unknown and the sea was rough, the No. 1 Life-...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore
A Nimrod jet aircraft of No. 201 Squadron,R.A.F. Strike Command, committed the ashes of the late Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, G.C.B., D.S.O., a former member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., to the sea in Alum...
Category: Obituaries
Five Fishing Boats and Bairn's Pride
SIX FISHING BOATS ESCORTED Arbroath, Angus. On Friday the 30th August, 1963, at 8.45 a.m. the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that five fishing boats had gone to sea early that morning and were now returning to harbour....