LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Death of Life-Boatman
WHEN an explosion wrecked their fishing boat off the South Devon coast on I5th June, 1967, one of the two men lost was Mr. Francois L. Janssens, of Brixham, who was a regular crew member of the Torbay life-boat. His father, Mr. Albert...
Category: Obituaries
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Watters, who has been coxswain of the Fowey, Cornwall, life-boat since 1934. In 1947 Cox- swain Watters was awarded the bronze medal for the rescue of seven men from the auxiliary motor vessel...
Category: Articles
The Guillemot
ENGINES STOPPED AND SAILS BLOWN AWAY Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—After four fish- ing boats had gone out in the morning of the 1st of May, 1947, a strong off- shore wind sprang up. All the boats were dragging their trawls before the wind when the...
The S.S. Don
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of January, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Don, of Goole, which was at anchor half a mile west of the Middle Light Buoy, had reported that her second officer had...
The Long In the Shorts
In September John Cook, honorary secretary of Claygate branch, and Dave Avey from Brighton, undertook a long, 72-mile sponsored walk around the island of Malta.
Sponsored by Monarch Airlines the two friends raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On March 20 In a Strong West-South-Westerly Breeze Newhaven's 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Louis Marches! of Round Table Went to the Help of the Barge Dunord Which
On March 20 in a strong west-south-westerly breeze, Newhaven's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Louis Marches! of Round Table went to the help of the barge Dunord which, on passage from Lowestoft to Poole, was aground one mile west ofBeachy Head... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (4)
National INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. ESTABLISHED IN SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS. PATRONESS. HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. VICE-FATUOUS. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. HIS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Rota
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At11.10 in the early morning of the 16th of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that signal lights had been seen about seven miles north-west of Kinnaird Head, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover of H.R.H.
the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, is from a photograph by Mr. Cecil Beaton, of Kensington, and is reproduced by his very kind per- mission..
Category: Articles
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