LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
8 mm films
Many small groups of people interested to hear about the work of the RNLI are only able to provide a projector for an 8 mm film. Unfortunately, as the demand is relatively small, the Institution cannot use its budget for the making of this...
Category: Articles
Yacht Betsy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 1 P.M. on the 1st August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat which had been to a vessel off the Naze was on her way back showing distress signals. A freshening strong N.E. breeze was...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Conchita
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 8.20 a.m.
on 23rd February, 1966, while working on the foreshore, the coxswain noticed a yacht aground on the Lavan sands with a man on board, and realizing that the yacht Conchita would be in danger...
Windsurfer overcome
18 October: The Mumbles Just as preparations for the Mumbles Oyster Festival were taking place, a visitor spotted a windsurfer in difficulty half a mile out to sea. The volunteers launched their inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Three Metal Floats
JULY 22ND. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. During the afternoon four young men, holiday visitors from Coventry, went out on three metal floats from Prestatyn. The sea was rough and a strong south-westerly wind was blowing.<...
A Rowing Boat
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1939, information was received that two boys in a disabled small rowing boat were being carried out to sea, having broken a rowlock.
The motor life-boat William and Clara...
National Life-Boat Museum
The R.N.L.I's charter does not make provision for the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charity for this...
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Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.
D class...
A Silver Plated Replica of Chapman Light Made By Morris Johnson Was Presented to Her Majesty the Queen In June By Convey Island Branch; for 106 Years the Light
A silver plated replica of Chapman Light made by Morris Johnson was presented to Her Majesty The Queen in June by Convey Island branch; for 106 years the light marked Chapman Sands, known as 'the last hazard' to ships returning to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs