LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual General Meeting
THE annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 25th of March, 1958. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings
October (1)
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services
Sunbeam Chaser
BRONZE MEDAL AT 0100 ON OCTOBER 16, 1987 Portland Coastguard contacted Lt Cdr B F Morris, honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station, to inform him that a 40ft catamaran, 12 miles south of Portland Bill, was stationary under bare poles....
S.S. Kimball Harlow, of London
AUGUST 23RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 4.45 in the morning the coastguard telegraphed that North Foreland Radio Station had reported a vessel on the Southern Shipwash Sands and in need of help.
A light northerly...
The S.S. Noreg, of Gothenburg
Walmer, Kent. — At 6.23 on the night of the 21st of December, 1951, a vessel was reported to be on the Goodwin Sands in Trinity Bay, and at 6.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2, was launched.
The weather...
Coxswain Duncan Newlands of Campbeltown
Coxswain Duncan Newlands of Campbeltown. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Perils of London Streets
The Perils of London Streets. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) Naming Lady of Lancashire
(left) naming Lady of Lancashire.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Unsung heroes: Mike Howland
Lifeboat Press Officer,
Douglas Lifeboat Station
How did you first get involved with the RNLI?
I’m a hobby wildlife photographer, and my son was on the crew as deputy second coxswain. The press officer left...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboat launched 3,745 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,491 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day).
Over 35 per cent of all services carried...
Category: Articles