LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Small Wonder
Small wonder We enclose a photograph (above) taken while on holiday in Cornwall. We spotted the scene at Polruan whilst waiting for the ferry to Fowey. The picture still makes us smile; is it a new class of lifeboat?—DAVID AND STEPHANIE... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miss Sally-Anne Smith's grandparents, Mr and Mrs Broom, handing over a tin of half-pennies to Captain C. E. Mock
Miss Sally-Anne Smith's grandparents, Mr and Mrs Broom, handing over a tin of half-pennies to Captain C. E. Mock, honorary secretary of the Mumbles lifeboat station, watched by Cosxwain Derek Scott, B.EM.
by courtesy of...
Category: Correspondence
Presentation of Lister Generator: (1 to R) Mike Pennell Executive Assistant to Director Rnli John Atterton Deputy Director Rnli; Cdr David Wilford Superintendent Pool
Presentation of Lister generator: (1. to r.) Mike Pennell, executive assistant to director RNLI, John Atterton, deputy director RNLI; Cdr David Wilford, superintendent Poole depot; John Ball, production director R. A. Lister Power Plant; Cdr... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Shoreline Volunteer Enrolment Team Which Had Such a Fine Record at the London International Boat Show In January Was Back at Earls Court In March Hard at Wor
Our Shoreline volunteer enrolment team which had such a fine record at the London International Boat Show in January was back at Earls Court in March hard at work throughout the Ideal Home Exhibition.
Three hundred new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Long Distance Walker
When 21-year-old Guy Pain arrived at Poole headquarters at 5 pm one August afternoon the office was closing but a special celebration in his honour was ready to begin. For Guy, who suffers the handicap of diabetes, had reached his...
Category: Donations
The Business of the Morning Over Paul Daniels With Some of the Sea Scouts and Cub Sea Scouts Who Had Witnessed the Rnli's
The business of the morning over, Paul Daniels, with some of the Sea Scouts and Cub Sea Scouts who had witnessed the KNLI's ninth national lottery, took a look round the headquarters museum. One undoubted attraction was the working model... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peter Gilson
Peter Gilson, deputy launching authority at Southend-on-Sea from 1986 until his death. He joined Southend lifeboat crew in 1947, and was bowman from 1953 to 1954 and second coxswain for one year in 1955 before being appointed coxswain in...
Category: Obituaries
No Mystery for Poirot!
No mystery for Poirot! Despite the fact that they were filming a 'whodunnit' there was no mystery about the benefits to Salcombe lifeboat when a London Weekend Television film crew spent two weeks in the town.
The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Windy Old Weather
Newcastle, County Down, in a Force 9 to 10 southeasterly as the station's Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay surfs into the harbour entrance at a speed considerably above that which her designer intended.
The photograph was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Louisa
^Walton and Frinton's lifeboat in action on a irvice to another yacht on 21 October 1990 sands to the south of the service on the i page.
The lifeboat had been launched at 0413 to i the Sheerness lifeboat, a helicopter...