LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Time running out
The yacht Sea Time was running out of fuel, 18 miles from shore. She had been battling gale-force conditions for 16 hours on 9 September 2008 when Llandudno’s Mersey class lifeboat Andy Pearce was launched. A lifeboat crew member went...
Category: Articles
July
Launches 35 Lives rescued 8 JULY 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.46 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported that a four-engined bombing aeroplane, belonging to the R.A.F., had crashed in the sea about two and three-quarter miles east of the...
Category: Services
NEW YEAR – NEW KNOWLEDGE
Start 2017 by boosting your maritime knowledge.
Our collection of New Year reads will also give you plenty of
impressive facts to share at what’s left of the festive party season!
For salty...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
40 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1953 In an issue which reports the capsize of a modern fast lifeboat it is interesting to read the remarks of the then Chief Inspector of Lifeboats onthesubjectofself-righting and the design of lifeboats...
Category: Articles
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Tenby -- West Division Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, has one of the longest slipways in the country, its 360ft extending from the boathouse off Castle Hill into deep water. The...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 1,550 times, saving 686 lives.
In 1985 lifeboats launched 3,882 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,744 lives (an average of over...
Category: Articles
Where Help Is Wanted
THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in the Welsh District and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in touch...
Category: Advertisement
The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1906) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...
Category: Awards
A Fishing Vessel
Faster... and further The abilities of the new generation of fast lifeboats were highlighted on the very day that this page of The Lifeboat went to press - with Eyemouth's Trent Barclaycard Crusader going to the aid of a stricken fishing...
Patina
Three saved from swamped dinghy Members of the Portsmouth lifeboat crew have also received framed letters of thanks from the Chairman of the RNL1 for their sen-ices during an earlier rescue. The helmsman for this service was Steve Alexander...