LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
the Winch Takes the Weight the Quarter Stoppers Are Removed and Steadily the Lifeboat Is Hauled Up the Slipway
. . the winch takes the weight, the quarter stoppers are removed and steadily the lifeboat is hauled up the slipway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
PORTRUSH, Co. DOWN.-—About 10.40 A..M on 5th December, 1931, a fishing boat was reported to be in difficulties in the Eastern Bay, and the Motor...
Category: Services
People and Places
Stirling Whorlow QBE Stirling Whorlow QBE, the secretary of the Institution for eight years from 1961 to 1969 died at his home in Spain on 2 October 1988.
One of his colleagues from the RNLI at the time writes: 'It is...
Category: Articles
First Rescue Ever from a Hovercraft
ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was effected by life-boat from a hovercraft. The hovercraft was the first to be used on public service in this country and operated...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To MICHAEL F. HARDY, on his retirement, after serving for 27 years as coxswain and 4f years as second coxswain of the Eastbourne life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To...
Category: Awards
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint: double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...
Category: Medals
People and Places
Lifeboats in the South Seas - in TongaJust before Christmas, Swanage lifeboat station received news of their old lifeboat, Thomas Markby, which served at the station from 1928 to 1949.
The letter came from the Kingdom of...
Category: Articles
Links With Local Life-Boats of the Past—The Old Life-Boat Station at Lytham With Its Windmill Partner
Links with local life-boats of the past—the old life-boat station at Lytham, with its windmill partner, and (right) the old life-boat station at St Anne's which is now an ambulance station. Looking on is Mr. John Kennedy, honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Headstrong
Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...