LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Better than fiction
Neil Oliver’s fascination with daring deeds has led him to champion the RNLI – and he’s been in deep water himself a few times, as he tells Rory Stamp
With his rich Scots accent and long black hair, broadcaster, writer and...
Category: Articles
Chataway
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The...
Destined for Life-Boat Stations All Over the U.K., the First Ever Delivery of Martell Cognac Was Recently Received at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Borehamwood,
Destined for life-boat stations all over the U.K., the first ever delivery of Martell cognac was recently received at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Borehamwood, Herts. Taken in the depot's rigging loft, the picture shows (left to right)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From the Director
It is a relief to be writing my annual message for The Lifeboat as a welcome alternative to sending letters to the editors of the Sunday Telegraph and Private Eye! Many of you will have read the articles in those publications and will share...
Category: Articles
St.Peter Port Lifeboatmen With Radiant Med Survivors
St Peter Port lifeboatmen with Radiant Med crew members rescued on January 24. Before the survivors left Guernsey the lifeboatmen took them on an island tour but a lifeboat alert towards the end of the afternoon meant a dash to St Peter Port... - View image in PDF
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The Yachtsmen's Life-Boat Supporters' Association By Commander F R H Swann OBE RNVR
IT has always been a comforting feeling for yachtsmen to know that if they are in trouble off the coasts of the United Kingdom or Ireland and can make a distress signal by visual means or R/T, a life-boat will come to their assistance...
Category: Articles
Abstract of the Wreck Register for 1876-77
TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—On the 13th April, at about 7 A.M., the brigantine Cygnet, bound from Silloth to Dundalk, with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore in Dandrum Bay during a strong S.E. gate.
The Memorial Life-boat put off...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register for 1877-78
FROM the Abstract of the Wreck Register presented by the Board of Trade, before the close of last Session, to Parliament, it appears that the number of shipwrecks, casualties, and collisions on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom,...
Category: Articles
The Prince of Wales In Scotland. National Life-Boat Assembly In Edinburgh. Life-Boat Ball In Glasgow
ON 21st November last, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., paid a special visit to Scotland, as President of the Institution, to attend a Scottish National Life-boat Assembly in Edinburgh and a Life-boat Ball, on the same day, in...
Category: Meetings
(Right) Who's Who?
(Right) Who's who? The Mumbles and Ennal's Point crews.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs