LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
J. P. McDonough N. Pendlebury Galway Bay C. Hernon to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those...
Category: Awards
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4fh January, 1872. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The Destruction of the Scarborough Life-Boat
IN the columns of each number of this Journal we have had the pleasure to record numerous instances of our life-boats' services to shipwrecked crews. When it is remembered under what difficult and dangerous circumstances those services...
Category: Articles
On September 1 1976 Walmer Ilb and 37' 6" Rother Lifeboat Hampshire Rose Went to the Help of Yacht Ay Bee Gee Holed By a Baulk of Timber First Crew Member
On September 1, 1976, Walmer ILB and 37' 6" Rother lifeboat Hampshire Rose went to the help of yacht Ay Bee Gee, holed by a baulk of timber.
First, crew members helped her skipper, a Shoreline member who also helps... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'It’s a good time to hang up my sou’wester. I’m leaving a trim and healthy organisation.'
On the eve of his retirement, the RNLI’s most influential Master Mariner looks back on 40 years at ‘the sharp end’ ...
Michael Vlasto, RNLI Operations...
Category: Articles
Coastal Life
COAstAL LIfe Not in my backyard? Windfarms are springing up all around the British Isles, but most are offshore, away from the controversy blowing in the countryside. Bethany Hope investigates their impact Devotees of the modern equivalent...
Category: Articles
Feature Old Friends...
The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...
Category: Articles
The Late George Lennox Watson, Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution 1887-1904
IT is fifty years this year since George Lennox Watson, the yacht designer, of Glasgow, was appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution.
Looking back over these fifty years, one can say that Mr. Watson's...
Category: Articles
Union Crystal (1)
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...
Five of Hearts
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.40 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1952, the police re- ported that a motor cruiser was in difficulties about one mile from Brey- don Swing Bridge, and at 10.10 the life-boat Mary Scott, on...