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Boxing Day Dip

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

This incriminating picture of Rab Rice, Larne lifeboat mechanic, and his 'girlfriend' was taken at the East Antrim Boat Club sponsored swim on Boxing Day 1999.

The event saw 23 swimmers from the boat club, local... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The S.S. Napier

Date: February 1892

Volume: 15

Issue: 163

TYNEMOUTH.—At about 12.45 P.M. on the 25th May alarm guns were fired from the Spanish Battery indicating a vessel in distress. Crowds of people at once rushed to places from which the harbour could be seen, and observed that a steamer was...

"Stand By Vessel."

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

Anchor Chanty.

BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.

" She therefore stood by the vessel until dawn."—Honorary Secretary's...

Category: Songs

Portrait on the Cover

Date: June 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 326

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Evan Wright, of Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire. He served as second coxswain from June, 1905, until January, 1912.

He was then appointed coxswain, so that he has been coxswain for...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Lynx

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

MOETE BAY, NQBTH DEVON;—The s.s.

Lynx, of Cardiff, bound from that port to Portreath, with coal, sprang a leak when off Morthoe Point, on the 6th March, and with the view of saving the lives of the crew, the master ran her...

Waveney Class 32

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

Waveney Class 32. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Enterprise

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Divas Head. At 2.14 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched in a...

Centenary Publications and Souvenirs

Date: June 1924

Volume: 25

Issue: 281

" Britain's Life-boats : The Story of a Century of Heroic Service." By Major A. J. DAWSON, with an Introduction by H.R.H. the PBI.VCE OF WALES, K.Gr., President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and a Fore- word by...

Category: Advertisement

Mrs Margaret (Peg) Braithwaite

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

Mrs Margaret (Peg) Braithwaite MBE, president of the Barrow ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Braithwaite has been a member of the guild since 1969 and became president in 1994. She was awarded an MBE in 1984..

Category: Obituaries

Flying Lessons

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

Following the announcement in the winter issue of The Lifeboat, the RNLI has started testing a 7.6m (25ft) hovercraft to assess its potential as a new rescue vehicle. The six-sealer craft is being tested in Poole harbour over a variety of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs