LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. East Indian
On 7th October a wireless message was received from the s.s. East Indian, of Detroit, U.S.A., that she was putting into Stornoway, as one of her crew had been severely injured. When she arrived, shortly before four on the morning of the 8th,...
Speed, skill, survival
The quick thinking and skill of two honeymooners and RNLI lifeguards were the difference between life and death for a jogger who went into cardiac arrest on a Cornish beach
Mawgan Porth Beach...
Category: Articles
Weymouth: As Amirante Sinks Weymouth's 54Ft Arun Lifeboat Tony Vandervell
Weymouth: as Amirante sinks, Weymouth's 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell moves in to pick up her crew. On the lifeboat foredeck are (!) Crew Member Robert Runyeard and fr) Assistant Coxswain Michael Reynolds. photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inland Revenue
Daventry and District branch members and friends raised a total of £2,245 at this year's annual Braunstone Boat Show held on the Grand Union Canal at Braunstone, Daventry over the Spring bank holiday weekend. The three day event is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Crews
"MAN the Life-boat!" has become a household -word, and it may possibly prove of some interest to those who, have not had the opportunity of seeing different parts of the coast of England, or of studying the different types of the...
Category: Articles
Foreign Life-Boat Societies
DUHIXG 1952 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 12 British vessels and rescued over 40 lives from them.
Belgium Belgian life-boats went to the help of two British yachts, one of which was towed into harbour and the...
Category: Articles
John Batchelor
John Batchelor (above), a member of Mudeford lifeboat crew runs the fresh fish stall on the quayside and has produced a fish cookbook to raise funds for the station. Mr Batchelor retires from active lifeboat duty in four years time and it is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 102. Lives rescued 193.
April Meeting.
Aberdeen.—During the very bad storms from 21st January to 1st Febru- ary the motor life-boat was launched three times, the pulling and sailing life- boat...
Category: Services
At the South East District Conference George a Hodgkins (R) Vice-President Ofreigate and Redhill Branch Presented a Cheque for £10000 to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Co
At the South East District Conference George A. Hodgkins (r.), vice-president ofReigate and Redhill branch, presented a cheque for £10,000 to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, KCB, chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, watched by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fair Water
On the same day the Life-boat Arab, also stationed at Padstow, was called out for service, by means of the telephone.
She was launched at 4 p.m., and proceeded under oars to the ketch Fair Water, of Jersey, bound from...