LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Weathering the storm
As the recession continues, your support for the RNLI is more important than ever.
Six out of ten lifeboat launches are only possible thanks to legacy gifts. While we expect the number of gifts to increase over the coming...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (3)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St. Helier, Jersey.—2nd February, 1938. A report had been received that a French military aeroplane had been forced down sea, but later it was learned that the plane was safe. The St. Peter Port motor life-boat...
News and Views
Minehead's new D class lifeboat, George and Christine, was named during a ceremony held outside the boathouse on 10 October 1999.
The new lifeboat, funded by George Stnbling of Axminster, replaced the previous D class...
Category: Articles
RNLI Scoops Two Golds!
The awards were made at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 9 December 1997, and the photograph (right) shows Edward Wake-Walker, the RNLI's head of public relations, together with Derek Humphries, managing director of Burnett... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
King Edward VIII and the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1936 - - - - 64,752 King Edward VIII and the Life-boat...
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Port Talbot
Crew Member Ron Jones, (c), of Port Talbot completed the Afan half marathon recently and thanks to the support of his friends collected £93 in sponsorship. Receiving the cheque is his station honorary secretary, David Aubrey, with (I)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Newspaper Award for Best Account of a Life-Boat Service
The Royal National Life-boat Institution's award for what was, in the Institution's judgment, the best factual account of a service by a life-boat to appear in a newspaper in 1965 has been made to Air. T. G. Barker of the Whitby...
Category: Awards
Cover Picture
Whitby's 44ft Waveney lifeboat The White Rose of Yorkshire climbs a 25ft breaking sea in the approaches to Whitby Harbour. Returning from service in a strong north-northwesterly gale on April 8, 1982, she found conditions too dangerous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. A report had been received that an aeroplane was in distress and another that three men had baled out of an aeroplane, presumably the same one, but...
Portrush: Pulling and Sailing to Fast Afloat Arun By Joan Davies
AT NOON on Sunday March 1, 1981, a new Arun class lifeboat was placed on service at Portrush lifeboat station, and yet another page was turned in a story of lifesaving on the north coast of Ireland which began in 1860. That was the year in...
Category: Articles