LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Salcombe's 47Ft Watson the Baltic Exchange Her Emergency Bag Inflated
Salcombe's 47ft Watson The Baltic Exchange, her emergency bag inflated, bound for Brixham after being capsi:ed and righting in a violent storm on Ma 10. The photograph was taken by the crew of Torbay lifeboat which was escorting her to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Walton and Frinton: Tsunami at Anchor South of Long Sand As Edian Courtauld Approached the Wind Was North East By North Force 9 With Heavy Seas the Weather Overc
Walton and Frinton: Tsunami at anchor south of Long Sand as Edian Courtauld approached. The wind was north east by north force 9, with heavy seas, the weather overcast with heavy rain squalls.
photograph by courtesy of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Catch Them Young!
Catch them young! Two-and-a-half year old John Wingfield is the youngest fund raising helper of Brighton branch. He could not resist dressing up as a lifeboat in a competition at the local infants school in Patcham.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Lilian Platts
Mrs Lilian Platts who joined the Bristol Ladies Lifeboat Guild in 1942 and was its treasurer from 1956 to 1977.
She was awarded a silver badge in 1967 and a gold badge in 1976..
Category: Obituaries
Michael Lenegham BEM
Michael Lenegham BEM, coxswain of Newcastle, Co. Down lifeboat for 26 years and a lifeboatman for more than 40 years. He served as second coxwain from 1950 until 1961 before taking over as coxwain, having first joined the crew in 1946, aged...
Category: Obituaries
Canvassing Support
Mr Martin Harris, a well known artist whose works sell in London galleries for upwards of £1,000, is pictured with the painting that he generously donated to Sheerness lifeboat station at their last dance. The painting raised £575... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach)
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach) crew and station officials are photographed with their new D class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday March 24, the day she was officially handed over. The lifeboat was the gift of Port Talbot Round Table 335 and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sennen Cove
Sennen Cove's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Diana White, searches off Land's End after four schoolboys were swept from the cliffs on May 6, 1985. photograph by courtesy of Daily Mail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hands Up:
Hands up: Keith Cook, an RNLI life governor, was at Aldeburgh lifeboat station last year when he came across this peculiar sight (left). Is it a particularly poignant appeal for funds or simply a case of all hands to the rescue?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
George Leith,
George Leith, coxswain of Lerwick lifeboat from 1969 to 1979. He joined the crew in 1949 and served as bowman from 1954 until his appointment as coxswain in 1969. He was awarded a Silver medal in 1972..
Category: Obituaries