LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lighting the Beach
SAILORS have always been famous for the keenness of their vision, and more especially for a power, beyond that of the average man of seeing clearly at night; but of those who serve the sea, none perhaps has this gift in larger measure than...
Category: Articles
Global lifesaving: A brave legacy
Drowning prevention across borders has been part of the RNLI’s vision since our charity’s foundation
It doesn’t respect borders. It holds no prejudice for one skin colour over another. It will not favour a shout for help...
Category: Articles
Drifting in the dark
Two 13-year-olds found themselves drifting out to sea in the dark on the evening of 7 September.
Wearing only Summer clothes, they thought they had secured their inflatable dinghy close to the shore near Hove but later...
Category: Articles
Commemorative plates
Commemorative plate, being held by Alice Wright, chief clerk. North West District office, is one of an edition limited to 250 being sold on behalf of the Lord Mayor of Manchester's lifeboat appeal to fund a Rother lifeboat to be named... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Conwy: Best foot forward from Ysgol Aberconwy
In October, volunteers from Conwy Lifeboat Station were presented with a cheque for £1,721.20 by pupils from Ysgol Aberconwy. The children at the local secondary school, which sits on the banks of the River Conwy, chose the RNLI as...
Category: Articles
Cave Search
On the evening of 18th June, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Walmer inshore rescue boat that two people had been cut off by the tide in St. Margaret's bay. At 9.30 the IRB crew were summoned. They launched 14...
Category: Services
Barrus
BARRU MARINE DIVISION Suppliers of OUTBOARD ENGINES DM I I INSHORE AlHL.1 LIFEBOATS for over 25 years to the As a result of an appeal to raise funds by the Lawnflite garden machinery division of E.P.BARRUS Ltd.
A new 'D...
Category: Advertisement
Baby Emu Tries to Snatch Back the Cheque for £580 He and Rod Hull Have Just Handed Over to Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer Rnli at Bentalls Kingston-U
Baby Emu tries to snatch back the cheque for £580 he and Rod Hull have just handed over to Ray Kipling, deputy public relations officer, RNLI, at Bentalls, Kingston-upon- Thames. The money was raised by Emu's country-wide promotion... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. —During the afternoon of Whit Sunday, the 16th of May, 1948, a yacht could he seen on Black Scar Bank apparently in diffi- culties. She made no distress signals, but at 5.15 in the evening, the coast- guard reported...
The Greek Cargo Ship Protoklitos (1)
West Mersea and Clacton-on-Sea: The Greek cargo ship Protoklitos was at anchor in the Blackwater Estuary when, on Monday February 7, fire broke out in her engine room and spread to her accommodation. It was a very cold day with a strong...