LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Great Old Lady
Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.
It is not the oldest boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Schooner Teazer, of Ipswich
During a terrific gale of wind, on the night of the 8th of January, the look-out-man at Stonehouse Point observed signals of distress from Mount Batten. The Prince Consort life- boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the bay. Owing to...
Your Letters
Pass them on...
The letters regarding 'passing on' THE LIFEBOAT interested me as I too have done this for a number of years, taking the journal to our local doctors' surgery and, more recently, sending them on a...
Category: Correspondence
The RNLI and me: Dave Myers
He’s cooked around the world and applied make-up to Hollywood stars – but Hairy Biker Dave Myers never forgets his roots in a small lifeboating community
What’s your first memory...
Category: Articles
Rescue By Breeches Buoy from a Trawler
At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...
Category: Services
Contents
Contents Henry Blogg of Cromer, by Patrick Howarth 77 Lifeboat Services 78 yVLrl V Offshore Lifeboat Services, June, July and August 1975 82 454 Medical Arrangements in the RNLI: Part I History, by Geoffrey Hale, MBE MB B.CH ... 83 Naming...
Category: Contents
Humber Lifeboat Crew In 1956 When the Late Captain William S Anderson (Fourth from Right) Was the Superintendent Coxswain Standing Directly By the Bow Is Mr Robert
Humber lifeboat crew in 1956 when the late Captain William S. Anderson (fourth from rig/it) was the superintendent coxswain.
Standing directly by the bow is Mr Robertson Buchan, his son-in-law, who recently retired as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Classic International Cruises,
SUMMER 2005 CRUISE COLLECTION Our summer 2005 cruise programme is packed with a fantastic selection of 52 great value cruises with a choice of four ships cruising from 8 convenient British departure ports. We are pleased to introduce to RNLI...
Category: Advertisement
Livonia and Bon Espoir
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 18th July the coastguard reported a small steamer in distress about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from Selsey look-out. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor...
The Last of the "Malvoisin."
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.
To the three services to this...
Category: Services