LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Wilfred Perrin of Skegness.
He was appointed coxswain in October 1947, and since then Skegness life-boats have been launched on service 47 times and have rescued 22...
Category: Articles
Mr. S.J.R. Legerton, of Clacton-On-Sea
BY the death of Mr. Robert Legerton on 28th September, at the age of eighty, the Institution has lost one who has been closely associated with its Clacton- on-Sea Station since its establishment fifty-two years ago, and who, as a Coxswain,...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services June July and August 1980
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: July 31 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 25, July 18, 20, 28, 29 and 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 7, July 18, 20, 24, August 1,6 (twice), 12 (twice), 18 and 31 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class...
Category: Services
Next generation is born
Sea trials of the prototype Shannon class lifeboat are underway. She is pictured here proving her ability to selfright.
This new all-weather lifeboat class, due to go into service next year, will be powered by waterjets,...
Category: Articles
Greetings from cyberspace!
For all those birthdays and other special events in your 2011 diary, why not send an RNLI ecard?
Available in a range of designs to suit every occasion, our ecards are fun, funky and environmentally friendly. They cost...
Category: Articles
An American Superfortress Aeroplane (3)
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
Services by Shore-Boats (9)
CAPE CLEAR, Co. CORK. On 24th September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o’clock in the afternoon.
They came from the S.S. Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden steamer which was in distress through enemy...
Category: Services
Services by Shore-Boats (3)
BURRA ISLE, SHETLANDS. While out haddock fishing in a small open boat from Skeld three men were thrown into the sea when their boat was capsized by a squall. The accident happened at about 7.30 A.M. on the 18th March, 1939, when the boat was...
Category: Services
A Victorian Studio Picture—'snow' Is Falling—Of Coxswain James Cable, the Aldeburgh Life-Boatman, Who Once Retorted to a Pessimistic Onlooker: 'We Don'T Have to Come Back—But We Have to G
A Victorian studio picture—'snow' is falling—of Coxswain James Cable, the Aldeburgh life-boatman, who once retorted to a pessimistic onlooker: 'We don't have to come back—but we have to go out'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME for ten years and only the sixth time since the end of World War II 32 years ago the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry has been awarded.
The service which earned Keith Bower of Torbay this...
Category: Articles