LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of the Medals of the Institution Voted to Naval and Marine Officers
IN a previous issue we promised to publish a supplemental list of the Gold and Silver Medals voted by the rOYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to officers of the Royal Navy and Marines, in acknowledge- ment of their gallant deeds in Saving...
Category: Medals
The Right Hon. The Earl of Plymouth, G.B.E., C.B., D.L., P.C.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Plymouth, G.B.E, C.B.,D.L,P.C By the death of the Earl of Plymouth on 6th March last, the Institution has lost a friend who was always ready to place his name and great influence at the service of the...
Category: Obituaries
Rescue In a Gale Near the Harbour Bar
ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
Ex-Coxswain...
Category: Services
(Below) After Her Naming at Newhaven on September 7 1983 the New Arun Lifeboat Demonstrates Her Manoeuvrability
. . . (below) after her naming, at Newhaven on September 7, 1983, the new Arun lifeboat demonstrates her manoeuvrability. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bridlington Life-Boat William Henry and Mary King Which Is a 37-Foot Oakley Being Launched In a Blizzard on 27Th December 1968 When She Was Called Out to Escort T
The Bridlington life-boat William Henry and Mary King, which is a 37-foot Oakley, being launched in a blizzard on 27th December, 1968, when she was called out to escort three fishing boats into harbour. She was built in 1964.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
FREE PASSAGE OF AIR into engine room and cabins of a motor boat under way is essential to both machinery and man.
Without it, engines cannot run and the well-being and efficiency of the crew would soon be impaired. It...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Shark Fishing Boat Lestholm
APRIL 7TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
The Norwegian Shark fishing boat Lestholm had got into difficulties, but was taken in tow by another Norwegian boat. - Rewards, £14 1s..
Coxswain E. Matthews, of the Lizard, Cornwall
Coxswain Edwin Matthews, of the Lizard, has died at the age of eighty- seven. He became second coxswain in 1867, and coxswain in 1876, retiring in 1900 after thirty-three years as an officer ot the life-boat. During that time the station...
Category: Obituaries
The Dramatic Moment As Coxswain Hewitt Clark Brings Soldian
The dramatic moment as Coxswain Hewitt Clark brings Soldian alongside the sinking Boy Andrew to snatch the survivors to safety. The helicopter winchman is about to make his leap for the lifeboat in this photograph — he slipped and fell... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI and me: Julian Fellowes
The multi-award winning creator of Downton Abbey tells us about visiting a lifeboat station and imagines it as a setting for a new drama
WHO IS JULIAN FELLOWES?
Julian Fellowes is a novelist, Conservative peer,...
Category: Articles