LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Windsor Castle
Soon after i 2 A.M. on the 22nd July the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was ! aroused and informed that signal guns 1 were being fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel. The crew were assembled I and the boat launched. ...
Remembering those lost
This year marks the centenary of the Fethard lifeboat disaster, when nine volunteers from the Co Wexford station died during a brave rescue attempt in unforgiving seas.
On 20 February 1914, 14 Fethard crew members launched...
Category: Articles
Miss E M Lloyd-Jones Organising Secretary Scotland Presents Prizes for the Rnli Art Competition Arranged By Grangemouth Branch for Local Schoolchildren the 300 An
Miss E. M. Lloyd-Jones organising secretary, Scotland, presents prizes for the RNLI art competition arranged by Grangemouth branch for local schoolchildren. The 300 and more pictures and models submitted were judged by Frank Donnan.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ronja Borchard
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumberland.
•—About 6.30 in the morning of the 10th of February, 1950, the Amble coastguard reported to the Amble life- boat authorities that a vessel was ashore near Coquet Island; and the life-boat...
Wizard of Oz
5 January 2012: RNLI Lifeguard Ross Leighton saved a family of four from a dangerous rip current off Bennett’s Beach in New South Wales, Australia. He was lifeguarding down under for our Winter, but is usually...
Category: Articles
Sea Vixen
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 5.18 p.m.
on 5th February, 1967, a message was received that two red flares had been reported about five miles to the east of the boat station. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 5.30 in...
The S.S. Obsidian
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of November, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Obsidian, of Glasgow, had wirelessed distress signals, giving her position as four miles west-by-north of Ayr. At 12.5...
Lifeboat Services
j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
Category: Services
Setting Sail on a New Voyage: Crew Member Paul Frost of Rhyl Aboard the ILB With His Bride Mary Bernadette Morris After Their Wedding Last Autumn Photograph By Courte
Setting sail on a new voyage: Crew Member Paul Frost of Rhyl aboard the ILB with his bride, Mary Bernadette Morris, after their wedding last autumn. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Rhyl Journal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Albano
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 2.15 early on the morning of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1953, the South Gare coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Albano, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had gone aground in Tees Bay and had asked for tugs and a...