LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
First Vellum Award for IRB Rescue
For the first time ever the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded for a service by an inshore rescue boat. The service was carried out by the Eastney IRB on 3ist October, 1965, when six men were saved from a...
Category: Awards
The Admiralty Trawler Moray and Empire Ned
DECEMBER 13TH - 14TH. - DUNMORE, EAST, CO. WATERFORD, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. Just before half-past five in the evening the coast watcher at Hook Point telephoned to the Dunmore East station that a vessel was off the Hook showing flares....
Balloon Races
FOUR branches have carried out balloon races with great success this year.
At St. Albans, where the race was being held for the third time, about a thousand balloons were sent off, of which eighty-five were...
Category: Articles
The Long In the Shorts
In September John Cook, honorary secretary of Claygate branch, and Dave Avey from Brighton, undertook a long, 72-mile sponsored walk around the island of Malta.
Sponsored by Monarch Airlines the two friends raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (32)
JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A heavy explosion had been heard from a steamer and she was found lying on her side, but no sign of her crew was found. They must all have been lost. - Rewards, £7 12s. 6d.
Lifeboat Open Days 1982: Poole Headquarters and Depot
Poole Headquarters and Depot Thursday July 22 Friday July 23 Saturday July 24 10 am—6 pm 10 am—8 pm 10 am—6 pm WHEN THE ENGLISH TOURIST BOARD proclaimed 1982 Maritime England Year it was considered an appropriate occasion to open the...
Category: Articles
The Ib 1-Type D Class Inshore Lifeboat Blue Peter IV brings Her Crew Safely Home
The IB 1-type D class inshore lifeboat Blue Peter IVbrings her crew safely home. She was memorably named by Blue Peter's Konnie Huq at the London Boat Show in January 2005. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Down to the Last Detail: a Model of Rnlb Ruby and Arthur Reed
EVERY PIPE, every cable, even the oilcan and the radio telephone instructions, all to scale, can be found in a beautiful and meticulous model of Cromer's 48ft 6in Oakley lifeboat which was presented to the Institution last December....
Category: Articles
Virtuous, Just Reward, Good Way, Golden Gleam and Mary Jane
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...
British and Foreign Rewards for Saving Life
ON the 6th of December last, the E. Z., of New York, fell in with the British vessel John Garrow, when in the act of sinking.
The master, his wife, child, and twenty-six members of the crew, were safely taken off at great...
Category: Articles