LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boat Shows
SHOWS Thanks to the generous free space allocated by the organisers, the RNLI was able, for the second year running, to display a lifeboat at the 1985 London International Boat Show. She was the 33ft Brede class, Safeway, destined for...
Category: Articles
The Service In 1943.
In 1943 life-boats rescued 469 lives and helped to save 47 boats and vessels from destruction. Of their 411 launches, 249, or nearly two-thirds, were to ships and aeroplanes in distress on account of the war. Life-boatmen won 30 medals for...
Category: Articles
Feature Come Fly With Me
The RNLI reached an important milestone in December when its first rescue hovercraft went on station at Morecambe on the north west coast. The Lifeboat takes an in-depth look at this exciting new addition to the fleet.'It's a lot...
Category: Articles
April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 56
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...
Category: Services
Naming Ceremonies
As briefly reported in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 154) a number of life-boat naming ceremonies have taken place.
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire: the 44-foot steel life-boat Arthur & Blanche Harris was named by...
Category: Inaugurations
Lady Margaret, Georgina II and Pandora B
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1952, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat reported that the motor pleasure launch Lady Margaret, of Middles- brough, had gone aground on the harbour bar. The tide was too...
Ocean Gift
Flam borough, Yorkshire.—As the coble Ocean Gift was out fishing, and a strong north-east wind was rising, accompanied by a growing sea, the life-boat Howard D was launched at 7.55 on the morning of the 30th September, 1949. The...
The Wasting of the English Coast. (From the Times, 5th October, 1886)
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
Category: Articles
The President In Essex
Tour takes in six stations His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the RNLI's president, visited six Essex coast lifeboat stations in July, meeting lifeboat crew members and their families, station officials and members of the...
Category: Articles
Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite
LlEUTENA'NT-COLONEL CLEMENT RlCH- ARD SATTERTHWAITE, O.B.E., late of the Royal Engineers, who was deputy secretary of the Institution from 1925 to 1931, and secretary from 1931 to 1946, died in his sleep on the 5th of May, 1953. He was...
Category: Obituaries