LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles looks at the RNLI's plans for the future and at a busy and memorable 1993In any generation, improvements in the lifeboat service can always be achieved, and the recognition that tomorrow we should aim to be better than...
Category: Articles
Launch of a Reserve Life-Boat
This photograph taken in colour won a first prize in the Institution's competition (See page 283). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr Hugh Cudlipp OBE Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation Ltd Presented Awards at the Annual Meeting of the RNLI at Central Hall Westminster O
Mr. Hugh Cudlipp, O.B.E., Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation Ltd., presented awards at the annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. at Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969. Here Coxswain Derek Scott of The Mumbles life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tange
Three saved after 11 hour service to yachtcromer lifeboat 2nd Coxswain Billy Davies received the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for saving the lives of three crew and their yacht after an eleven hour 1/etU *.
Letters
What's in a name? I was intrigued by the selection of proposed names put forward as alternatives to Shoreline Members (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer 1987, Page 170).
They mostly showed a certain degree of aptness or humour, but...
Category: Correspondence
Outlaw
Dragging anchor PORTLAND COASTGUARD received a call at 1530 on Saturday September 19, 1981, from the motor fishing vessel Outlaw saying that her engine had failed and she was dragging her anchor three miles west of St Albans Head. There was...
'A stark reminder'
The 60th anniversary of one of the RNLI’s most tragic days was marked at Arbroath in October.
Six crewmen died when the lifeboat Robert Lindsay was struck by huge waves close to the harbour and capsized on 27 October 1953....
Category: Articles
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Cover Picture
A Sea King helicopter from 202 squadron RAF Brawdy flies past the naming ceremony site at Tenby on September 29, 1986, in salute to the station's new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, RFA Sir Galahad. A description of the proceedings can be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RESCUE
HUMPBACK WHALE FREED
DART/SALCOMBE | 22 MARCH
RNLI crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out – this time it was an 8m humpback whale trapped
n fishing gear. The lifeboats helped...
Category: Articles