LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
120 years at Walmer
Walmer Lifeboat Station is celebrating the dedication of three volunteers who, between them, have over 120 years
of service....
Category: Articles
Sheringham's Retiring Coxswain By Edward Wake-Walker
Henry 'Joyful' West, BEM, retired as coxswain of Sheringham lifeboat at the end of 1984 after a long and distinguished career. He is a man who would rather talk about the achievements of others than his own, but the 'Joyful'...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ON 3rd November, 1910, the following notice appeared in the Press :— With a view to economy and to unity of effort and control, the work of collecting money for the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution hitherto done in certain directions...
Category: Articles
International Hull Scrubbing Team: Holidaymakers Joined With Valentia, Kerry, Crewmen to Scrub and Paint the Underside of the Hull of the Rowland Watts, the Local 52-Foot Barnett Life-Boat Which
International hull scrubbing team: holidaymakers joined with Valentia, Kerry, crewmen to scrub and paint the underside of the hull of the Rowland Watts, the local 52-foot Barnett life-boat which was built in 1957. In the picture are (left to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anna Precht
On the 18th September Caister supplied another stir- ring story of the sea, and while there is unfortunately some loss of life to record, the Life-boatmen, the men who " never turn back," have performed a fine rescue of...
The Kaliningrad-Registered Factory Trawler Borodinskoye Polye
Just eight days later Soldian was once again at sea on service to another factory ship in severe weather. At 2310 on Wednesday 17 November the Kaliningrad-registered factory trawler Borodinskoye Polye went ashore on the Unicorn reef in the...
Books
• A new, updated version of Gillian Howie and Gillian Zealand's history of Arbroath's lifeboats May 1982 has been compiled by Alasdair M. Sutherland, himself a crew member. With the aid of photographic illustrations Arbroath Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Vondel
FALMOUTH.—The full-rigged ship Vondel> of Amsterdam, bound from Liverpool for Port Adelaide with a cargo of superphosphates, stranded on the rocks near St. Mawes Castle Point, in an extremely dangerous position, having dragged her anchor...
CREWS HEAD INLAND
Lifeboat crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out. But even they must have been surprised to be deployed away from the coast.On 30 December, Girvan lifeboat crew members went to the aid of 12 people stranded on a bus in a...
Category: Articles
Elizabeth
On 16th February the ketch Elizabeth, of Bideford, when endeavouring to enter Bude Harbour in a heavy ground sea, got into difficulties, and was driven on to the rocks on the north side of the harbour, where seas continually broke over her,...