LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Surf's up!
With enormous surf breaking violently around them, how could two hypothermic men possibly escape their rocky prison?
Whipsiderry Bay is one of Cornwall’s ‘hidden gems’ that sees surfers catching waves all year round. So it...
Category: Articles
New Year Honours
AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the New Year's Honours List were: Knight Bachelor: Mr. M. Arnet Robinson, a member of the Committee of Management and Deputy Chairman of the Port of...
Category: Awards
A Year of Peace
In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on May 8th.
1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives. That is an average of 5 lives a month and is only 50 lives less than were rescued during the last twelve months of the...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The South Bank Meetings 1990 The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards for 1989 The RNLI's 1990 Annual General meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on the South Bank in London on May 22, were again well attended by...
Category: Meetings
Seen Leaving Poole (Left) the Former Osmund Gabriel
Seen leaving Poole (left) the former Osmund Gabriel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Falmouth's Severn Class Richard Cox Scott
Falmouth's Severn class Richard Cox Scott on exercise on a calm, sunny day. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Review
0 In Power Boats in Rough Seas (Adlard Coles Ltd., £4.25) Dag Pike has taken a sharp, discerning look at the factors affecting the seaworthiness and safety of power boats and described them in concise, seamanlike terms. Whatever...
Category: Articles
Falmouth's Arun Elizabeth Ann Speeds Away from SS Canberra With Her 'Medivac' Casualty, Seen Being Transferred In the Inset Photo.
Falmouth's Arun Elizabeth Ann speeds away from SS Canberra with her 'medivac' casualty, seen being transferred in the inset photo.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds
Mr. Courtenay H. EdmondsWith the death of Mr. Courtenay H.
Edmonds, of Exeter, at the end of 1923, the Institution lost the oldest of its Hon- orary Secretaries. Mr. Edmonds became Honorary Secretary to the Exeter Branch...
Category: Obituaries
Dinghies
Mass Capsize AT 3.11 p.m. on May 28 it was learnt that dinghies from the Shoreham, Sussex, yacht club were capsizing and theyacht club rescue craft did not seem able to cope with them, in particular one dinghy 100 yards off the harbour. The...