LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An American Lifeboat In Britain
With the 25-knot Trent and Severn lifeboats becoming increasingly common sights around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Nicholas Leach looks at the history of the Waveney class, the first 'fast' lifeboat to...
Category: Articles
The Founding of the Institution. The Report of the First Meeting
THE Institution was founded at a meeting held in the City of London Tavern on 4th March, 1824, with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Manners Sutton), in the chair. The twelve resolutions which called the Institution into being and laid down...
Category: Meetings
Lt Cdr M.W. Bond,
Lt Cdr M.W. Bond, honorary secretary at West Mersea lifeboat station from 1968 to 1983..
Category: Obituaries
The Aida Lauro
Wrecked on the Cornish coast, 1st July, 1937, (See opposite page mi cage 374.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (45)
JULY 18TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH,.
DORSET. A service aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was picked up by another boat. - Rewards, £ 3 5 s ..
An Aeroplane (94)
AUGUST 19TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A German aeroplane had come down in the sea, and the men in it had managed to climb on board the near-by wreck of the steamer Harcola, but they were picked up by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £7...
Memento of a Night to Remember: When the 85-Strong Caldicat Male ("»/Ce Choir Together With Soprano Soloist Miss Ann Beynon Gave a Concert at Bournemouth at the In
Memento of a night to remember: When the 85-strong Caldicat Male ("»/ce Choir, together with soprano soloist Miss Ann Beynon. gave a concert at Bournemouth at the invitation of the ladies' guild and Miss Mary Palmer on May 28,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Thirty-five years back • Commander Pearson's encounter with the lifeboat service off the Scottish coast during the last war, described in his letter published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, interested me very much. Having spent a...
Category: Correspondence
Homeward Bound
Mike Floyd continues his look at the training of today's lifeboatmen and joins a new Mersey class lifeboat on passage from Poole to her new station There was an air of anticipation, excitement even, when the engine note of our Mersey...
Category: Articles