LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award for Bravest Act of Lifesaving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1961 has been won by Coxswain John Stonehouse of Teesmouth for the rescue of the crew of three of the yacht Sybil Kathleen on the 1st...
Category: Awards
Some Ways of Raising Money
Last year some boys belonging to the Bluebird Navigators visited the RNLI Depot at Boreham Wood with Mr Jim Garrard, of Kesgrove, Suffolk, their leader. Mr Garrard puts on his static displays for the RNLI all around the east coast and does...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 14th November, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Co-opted Vice-Admiral Sir ARTHUR A. M.
DUFF, K.C.B., a member of the Committee of...
Category: Committee
Lifesaving on the edge
When lifeguards found a seriously injured man in the water, it would take three RNLI teams to bring him to safety over an island’s rocky ledges
Hoylake volunteer Marcus Swaine was already...
Category: Articles
Through the worst
Dunbar’s lifeboat and crew took a hammering on their way to saving two lives in May – would their resilience win the day?
Jonas and Ingrid Åkerblom had built the yacht Ouhm themselves. They planned to take...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Dynamo
The N.N.E. gale of the 12th January blew with unusual violence at Fishguard, and at 6.30 A.M. signals of distress were made by the s.s. Dynamo, of Hull, in the bay. The Life-boat Charterhouse was launched, but she was delayed for some little...
The Use of Oil to Reduce Breaking Seas
IN 1914 supplies of oil were issued to eight Stations with a view to finding out the best way of using it to reduce breaking seas, and in 1920, as a result of these experiments, all Stations were supplied with canvas bags, pierced with holes...
Category: Articles
Inlland Rover
Llandudno, with its hillclimbing trams and snowless ski slope, is something of a wonderland. So it may come as no surprise that the lifeboat station is in a rather unusual place and needs a tractor and Land Rover to tow the lifeboats half a...
Category: Articles
Medieval Knights Raise Funds for Lifeboats!
Knights in shining armour left to right: Roy Turner of Christchurch branch committee; Geoff and Val Winship; one of the jousting knights; Dennis Duddy, branch treasurer and Eric Freeman, branch chairman.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Detailed Specification for a Life-Boatman
From a boy's essay: "A life-boatman must possess great courage, a spirit of self-sacrifice, and a water-proof.".
Category: Articles