LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
M.F.V. Dumnonia
PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie...
The RNLI's First Hovercraft Was Funded Thanks to the Generosity of Supporter Kay Hurley
The RNLI's first hovercraft was funded thanks to the generosity of supporter Kay Hurley of Oxfordshire. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Memoriam. Captain the Hon. Henry Weyland Chetwynd, R.N.
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sustained a great loss by the death, on the 27th November last, of the late Captain CHETWYND, who had been a devoted and enthusiastic officer of the Committee for rather more than fourteen years....
Category: Obituaries
Past and Present
6O years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT of 1938 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats. 137 : Pulling & Sailing Life-boats. 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31 si. 1938 65.625 A difficult launch at Exmouth...
Category: Articles
The Sea Chart: the Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts
The Sea Chart: the Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts
by John Blake
Review by Tim Corke
The history of Great Britain has been governed by the sea and maritime...
Category: Articles
The Bulk Carrier Fiona and Phillips Oklahoma
Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and the actions of the Humber lifeboat crew...
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution. By Courtesy of Universal Pictorial Press & Agency Ltd.
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Gold-Medal Service at Ballycotton
By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
Category: Services
A Fishing Vessel (1)
Workington, Cumberland. At 7.5 on the evening of the 24th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had broken down off Seascale nine miles south-east of St. Bees. The life- boat Manchester...
Three American Inflatable Assault Boats
American Invasion' AS A TRAINING EXERCISE, three American inflatable assault boats set out from Calais on the morning of Tuesday, August 19, 1975, to cross the Channel, land and scale the cliffs of Dover.
However, the...