LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
40 Years of Service
STIRLING WHORLOW, O.B.E., who retired from the post of Secretary at the end of 1969, gave a lifetime of service to the R.N.L.I. Apart from the years of the 1939/45 war, when he served with distinction in the Army, his whole working life was...
Category: Committee
Scene from Above
The RNLI's lifeboats are part of the UK's overall Search and Rescue Facility and often work closely with their airborne counterparts.
Jim Ferguson, press officer of the Aberdeen branch of the RNLI, looks at HM...
Category: Articles
Effecting Communication With Stranded Vessels
THE mortar and rocket apparatus around the coasts of the United Kingdom, as stated in an early number of this Journal, is for the most part under the charge of the Coast- guard, who have frequently performed in- valuable services with it,...
Category: Articles
Twelve Days of Gales at Aberdeen. Award of the Silver Medal
Award of the Silver Medal.
DURING the twelve days from the 21st January to the 1st February. 1937 the worst gales within living memory blew at Aberdeen, and the south break- water of the harbour was washed...
Category: Services
November (1)
LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At eight in the evening of the 2nd September, 1942, a visitor reported that several people could be heard shouting for help beneath the cliffs to the east of the harbour. A light westerly wind was blowing, but the sea was...
Category: Services
Forest Row Lifeboat Choir
THIRTY-NINE Christmases ago in Forest Row, a little Sussex village nearly 30 miles from its nearest lifeboat, the village postman, Billy Mills, joined two local church choirs together to go carol singing to raise money for the RNLI.
Category: Articles
The United States' Life-Saving Service
IN the Number (115) of the Life-boat Journal for February, 1880, there appeared a brief description of the means provided for the Pre- servation of Life from Shipwreck in the United States of America, not only on their sea coasts but on the...
Category: Articles
Wrecked!
SHE put to sea on Christmas Eve, And through their tears they saw her leave, And in that happy time of peace The strife of waters well might cease; Bat far away across the foam The sailor found another home.
No more, no...
Category: Poetry
The Life-Boat Dog of Aldeburgh
All kinds of memorials have been erected to man but among the more unusual is this one portraying the life-size model of a dog. It can be seen on the front at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast overlooking a children's model yacht pond. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
T.T.H.
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 27th January, the barge T.T.H., of London, bound from Brightlingsea for Chatham with a load of shingle, got into difficulties. She lost her rudder and started a bad...