LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meeting Place
The RNLI's 1998 Annual Meetings For the fourth year running, the RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 21 May, took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London.
Displays were set...
Category: Meetings
The Sailing Barge Olive May and theYachts Marieta and Saeth (1)
Effective co-operation A FRESH WEST by southerly breeze gusting to near gale, force 7, was blowing along the south coast off Eastbourne on the afternoon of Monday September 1, 1986, when the town's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat was...
Feature Building Into the Millennium
Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings moves on to western Scotland, travelling from Kippford to Barra IslandHaving boldly gone from Berwick, on the north-east corner of England, we now cross the Final Frontier and...
Category: Articles
Better than fiction
Neil Oliver’s fascination with daring deeds has led him to champion the RNLI – and he’s been in deep water himself a few times, as he tells Rory Stamp
With his rich Scots accent and long black hair, broadcaster, writer and...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In September, October and November. 73 Lives Rescued
During September, life-boats went out on service 60 times and rescued 40 lives.
A BOY IN A RUBBER DINGHY Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were...
Category: Services
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Cliff-climbing lifeboatman saves boy Lifeboat crews are highly trained in many fields so they will be prepared when out on a shout. But there are a few services where RNLI training cannot help, where it is up to the individual to do...
Frances Helen
On 2nd September, 1968, the lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke put out to the yacht Frances Helen. A full account of this service appears on page 552..
Mr K M Aldridge, MBE
Mr K M Aldridge, MBE honorary secretary at Weymouth lifeboat station from 1951 to 1975. He was honorary treasurer from 1940 to 1951..
Category: Obituaries
Mr R H Jones
Mr R. H. Jones, honorary secretary of Conwy lifeboat station since 1967.
He was awarded binoculars in 1978..
Category: Obituaries
George Ellis
George Ellis, coxswain of Clacton lifeboat from 1953 to 1968. Mr Ellis joined the crew in 1934 and also served as second coxswain from 1945 to 1953..
Category: Obituaries