LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Love our lifesavers
We celebrated the work of some very special RNLI volunteers at our Annual Presentation of Awards in May. Here we feature Natasha Lambert, and two other dedicated volunteers
The RNLI has no...
Category: Articles
The Old Boys' Association of Maisie Graham Sea Training School Scarborough Has Been Presented With This Fine Model Lifeboat By Its Maker Mr G Dawson and During Social Functions It Has Alr
The Old Boys' Association of Maisie Graham Sea Training School, Scarborough, has been presented with this fine model lifeboat by its maker, Mr G. Dawson and during social functions it has already inspired contributions to the RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wishing Well at Cawdor Castle the Fourteenth Century
The wishing well at Cawdor Castle, the fourteenth century home of the Thanes of Cawdor, also gives an opportunity to castle visitors to become RNLI well wishers. The picture shows a recent lifting of the grill and (I to r) Lord Cawdor, Derek... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hidden Treasure
Our islands have a great heritage of constructing ocean-going vessels. But their shipbuilding glory days are fading – except where the RNLI is concerned
At the end of the 1800s, the UK was constructing over half of the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Ardle
GREAT YARMOUTH. — The Life-boat John Surch was launched at 10 A.M. on the 22nd January, and put on board the s.s. Ardle, of Dundee, some men by whose aid the vessel, which had been stranded on the beach about two months, was got afloat, and...
Centaurus
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1956, the Deal coastguard reported that the Liberian steamer Centaurus had been in collision with an unknown tanker some eighteen miles east-by-south from Ramsgate. The life-boat...
The S.S. Effra and Mardi Gras
FISHING COBLE TOWED TO HARBOUR Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.22 on the afternoon of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Effra had reported that she had the local fishing coble Mardi Gras with a...
The S.S. Flathouse
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1955, the coast- guard reported that the S.S. Flathouse, of London, which was in the Roads, had asked for a boat to land her mate, who had been taken ill....
Douglas Lifeboat's Inflatable X Boat Waits at the Foot of the Cliff for the Second Youth to Be Lowered
Douglas lifeboat's inflatable X boat waits at the foot of the cliff for the second youth to be lowered. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bradford Exchange
A field full of poppies swaying in the brce/e. brightening the countryside with their crimson splendour, is a inily beautiful sight to behold. Now ni can enjoy one of Britain's most popular flowers in all its shimmering glory all-year...
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