LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Quiet Waters
REFLOATED Anstruther, Fife. At 5.3 p.m. on ist April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Quiet Waters was ashore off Pittenweem harbour entrance. The lifeboat James and Ruby Jackson was...
Anniversary on Air
Mike Soars of Brierly Hill and Kingswinford branch set up a special amateur radio station for the RNLI's anniversary to help spread the word.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
50 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of November 1918 The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition Early this year the late Duke of Northumberland, the then President of the Institution, placed at its disposal the sum of £100, to...
Category: Articles
Excel
KINGSDOWNE.—The coxswain of the Life-boat, while on the beach, on the morning of the 9th April, saw a schooner run on the South Sand Head of the Goodwin Sands. He at once summoned the crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave, and at 6.15 the...
William Gilbert Davies, Motor Mechanic
William Gilbert Da Vies Motor Mechanic. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Motor Life-Boats That Want Names!
Nine for England; six for Scotland; one for Wales; three for Ireland.
The Institution now has 61 Motor Life-boats in its Fleet of 214. Another seven Motor Life-boats are under con- struction, and a further seventeen have...
Category: Articles
As London Life-Boat Day Went Ahead on 18Th March 1969 the Search for the Missing Longhope Life-Boat Was Announced on Newspaper Placards All Over London
As London Life-boat Day went ahead on 18th March, 1969, the search for the missing Longhope life-boat was announced on newspaper placards all over London.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Solar flair
Solar panels on the roof of RNLI College in Poole, Dorset, are reducing our carbon footprint and saving money.
Within 3 weeks of installation, the panels had generated their first megawatt hour of power – worth £430....
Category: Articles
Ageroen
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—A flare was observed by a fisherman at about 4.30 A.M. on the llth January, apparently caused by burning tar-barrels on board a vessel on the rocks at Nabb Point. The weather at the time was foggy, the windwas...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II has recently taken up station at Plymouth. She a 44' Waveney class 'fast afloat' lifeboat built to a design introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964. Her twin General Motors... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs