LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On the ropes
A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
Category: Articles
(Above) Standard 16' High-Speed Inshore Lifeboat With Inflated Neoprene Hull Can Work In Shoal Water and Among Rocks Normal Crew Two But Can Carry Up to Ten Peopl
(Above) Standard 16' high-speed inshore lifeboat with inflated neoprene hull can work in shoal water and among rocks. Normal crew, two, but can carry up to ten people.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of The Mumbles Life-Boat. The Whole Crew Lost
AT twelve minutes to six on the evening of the 23rd of April, 1947, the life-boat station at The Mumbles, Glamorganshire, received a message from the coastguard that Burnham Radio had picked up a call from the British steamship Samtampa,...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...
Category: Articles
An Airliner
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
Carol Sandra (1)
Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...
Charles
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
July
JULY 11TH . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore and then that she was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Category: Services
Rnli National Lottery
'It's a great pleasure to be here', said Clive Dunn who visited RNLI Headquarters to draw the sixteenth national lottery. 'Anything we do is done with great gratitude and affection for the lifeboat people'. Clive, who was...
Category: Articles
A Retirement
Mrs. H. D. Ford, of Margate, who was responsible for the formation of the Margate ladies' life-boat guild in 1957, and held the office of honorary secretary, retired this year.
During her term of office she was awarded...
Category: Articles