LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...
Category: Services
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APRIL 19TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. An angler had fallen into the sea, but only his cap could be found. - Rewards, £4 4s..
A NEW LEASE OF LIFE
They were crying out to be saved.’ It’s the kind of phrase you’ll hear from our lifeboat crews after
a rescue. But there is another group who share this noble narrative – the lifeboat restorers
They’re depending...
Category: Articles
Feature Expansion and Consolidation
The Life-boat journal was first published at a time of immense change for the Institution. In an extract from his book Riders of the Storm, Ian Cameron recounts some of the major events from that period of the RNLI's history.The...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent and Coxswain Upperton
Coxswain Upperton has twice won the silver medal. The first time was in the war of 1939 to 1945. In the war of 1914 to 1918 he was serving with the Colds,tream Guards in France.. - View image in PDF
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Letters
Beach bother In August, when my granddaughter Victoria was on holiday in Dorset, she went with her mum and brother to a beach at Sandbanks, where she recognised some of the members of the lifeguard team from the photo in theLifeboat article...
Category: Correspondence
New Year Honours
The list of honours bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the New Year Honours for 1959 included :— K.B. Mr. J. A. MILNE, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director, J. Samuel White & Co.
C.B....
Category: Awards
Book Reviews
The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Douglas Matthewson
Coxswain Douglas Matthewson presents to HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, during his visit to Arbroath on May 11, the lifeboatmen who man the 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat RNLB Shoreline. photograph by courtesy of D. C. Thomson... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs