LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MAY 2 8TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 5.50 P.M. a telephone message was received from the Milford Haven naval base that a soldier had fallen over the cliff at Mill Bay. The weather was fine with a northerly wind and a...
Built to Order Built to Last
The Atlantic 21 has to be tough and reliable - the lives of survivors and crew depend on it. Claire Judd, Assistant Editor, visited the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre, Cowes, to investigate the work that goes into the construction of...
Category: Articles
Letters
Disabled sloop in storm On September 14, 1975, we, the crew of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour which was in distress off the Needles, were rescued by the Yarmouth lifeboat.
No words or gestures can adequately express the deep...
Category: Correspondence
Ready for 2007 Yet?
The Lifeboat is pleased to announce that the third RNLI SOS day will be on Friday 26 January 2007. Will your school, youth organisation, office or factory colleagues wear their trainers for the day in exchange for a £1/€2 donation?... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose With Her Crew and the Lifeboat People of Kent and Hampshire As Well As Neighbouring Stations Who Had Gathered for Her Naming Music
Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose with her crew and the lifeboat people of Kent and Hampshire, as well as neighbouring stations, who had gathered for her naming.
Music was by the Junior Band of the Royal Marines and fanfares... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Relief D Class
Relief D class A 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat to be used in the relief fleet was handed over and dedicated on the evening of Wednesday July 17, 1985, at the RNLl's Poole depot. She was the gift of the Ancient Order of Foresters,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Returning the Compliment
Staff from the RNLI's depot and headquarters gave a helping hand to the Children in Need Appeal on 1 December last year when they made a 'double circumnavigation' of Poole. The D class inflatable stayed firmly ashore, being... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Linear II
Life in the old girl yet! The Robert, Beaumaris1 Watson class lifeboat bid a fine farewell during her passage back to the RNLI's Poole depot following her withdrawal from service in July.
She was called into service...
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LVIII. SUNDERLAND.—The Good Templar, 30 feet by 8 feet, 8 oars.
LIX. Ditto.—The Mary, 30i feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LX. Ditto.—The Florence Nightingale, 33 feet by 8 feet, 10...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL, KENT.—The s.s. Bion, of Newcastle, laden with oil, from Batoum for London, stranded on the inner part of the North Goodwin Sand in a thick fog on the morning of the 15th Feb., 1902. In response to signals from the Gull...
Category: Services