LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our Life-Boat Crews and Property Salvage Services
A CONTROVERSY has apparently arisen of late between the Life-boat Institution and Lloyd's on the subject of Property Salvage Services performed by Life-boat Crews, and it would seem, judging from para- graphs which have appeared in the...
Category: Articles
Nancy
Drifting trawler THE RAMSGATE TRAWLER Nancy reported to Ramsgate Harbour Radio on the evening of Monday January 30, 1984, that warps and nets had fouled her propeller. Her position was one and ahalf miles east south east of North Foreland...
H.R.H. The Duchess of Gloucester Names the New Ramsgate Life-Boat
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester Names The New Ramsgate Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Irish Steamer City of Waterford Which the Yarmouth Life-Boat Went to Aid
The Irish Steamer City of Waterford Which The Yarmouth Life-Boat Went To Aid. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Dragon Boat Teams Work to the Beat of a Drum
Above: Dragon Boat Teams Work To The Beat Of A Drum. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
by Dee Caffari
Review by Tim Robertson
The comparisons are inevitable I suppose – two women competing solo in a...
Category: Articles
Soapy Sunday
The 1st Mousehole Boys Brigade (left), took up mops buckets and brushes to clean Penlee lifeboat earlier in the year to raise cash for the Boys Brigade Lifeboats 2000 project.
The boys collected over £700 in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M.F.V. Arctic Solatair, two Motor Boats and two Sailboards
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...
Irish public answers MAYDAY
On 1 May, the people of Ireland got behind their volunteer lifeboat crews as part of the MAYDAY campaign, supported by food company John West. We asked the public to donate or hold a fundraising event – and the support blew us away. So much...
Category: Articles
Swing Low...
Phil Vickery MBE, a member of England's rugby world cup winning side, opened the new lifeboat station at Bude recently.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs