LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boatman Overboard
A Rescue at Portrush.
A VIOLENT westerly gale, with gusts at 70 miles an hour, swept across the British Isles on 19th October, 1935, with loss of life and great damage to property ashore and afloat. Twelve life-boats were...
Category: Services
A Sailboard
Boy helps save windsurfer Eleven-year-old Ryan Gratton was out fishing with his grandfather on 4 August when they spotted a windsurfer in difficulty. From their boat, Ryan's grandfather helped the windsurfer and Ryan radioed Dover...
Contents
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 10 Including one Bronze and three Vellum winning rescues Meeting place The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards at the Barbican Headcase 20 The RNLI leads...
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Milestone (L)' the Duke of Kent Meets Crew Members Who Had Themselves Built Their Boathouse; They Are Introduced By Senior Crew Member Henry Slade Photogra
milestone (/.).' The Duke of Kent meets crew members who had themselves built their boathouse; they are introduced by Senior Crew Member Henry Slade. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Folkestone Herald. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dorian
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.20 on the evening of the 12th of September, 1954, a man at Sark reported that the motor yacht Dorian had left Sark, with six people on board, for Guernsey at six o'clock that evening and ought to have...
Peter Heading (Left),
Peter Heading (left), helmsman of Aberystwyth station's C class inshore lifeboat, joined the crew in 1982.
In 1991, he was awarded a Bronze Medal in recognition of the courage and skill he displayed during a service on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Francis's Metallic Life-Saving Car
In an account of the New York Life-Saving Association, in the 19th Number of this Journal, we alluded to a metallic Life-Car, which, in conjunction with the mortar and rocket life apparatus, had been instrumental in saving a large...
Category: Articles
Windswept swimmer
31 August 2012: Both New Quay lifeboats went to the aid of a swimmer swept out to sea by strong winds and the tide. The inshore crew found the exhausted man 200m from the shore. The two crews then worked together...
Category: Articles
Oranje Nassau
Penlee, Cornwall - At n a.m. on 28th May, 1966, the honorary secretary was told that the life-boat would be needed at about 8 a.m. the following day to bring an injured man ashore from the Dutch motor vessel Oranje...
King Ja Ja
About 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th October, whilst a strong northerly gale was blowing, a steamer which proved to be the King Ja Ja, of Swansea, bound from Newcastle to Methil, with a cargo of steam rails, was sighted in a...