LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat from Sira
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the 18th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat from the Swedish tanker Sira of Vaster- vik, with a crew of four, had not re- turned...
No Life-Boat There!
BY NICHOLAS MICHELL, ESQ.* (With Ittuslration.') IT was a wild and lonely shore, Girded by rocks; the sea-bird's cry, The billow's everlasting roar, The tempest, howling through the sky, The only sounds—as though Despair Sat...
Category: Poetry
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
" LIFE-BOAT SATURDAY " is growing in popularity. Wherever " Life-boat Satur- day " demonstrations have been held, the most remarkable enthusiasm has been excited. In view of this, the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
Life cycle
Each Summer, Londoners Nick Pleydell-Bouverie and Rad Hart-George swap their suits for cyclists’ Lycra and head off on the next stage of their RNLI Tour of Britain
The ambitious idea was...
Category: Articles
Yacht Aquila
Margate, Kent - At 4.27 p.m. on 7th December, 1969, it was learnt that the 50 ft. ketch yacht Aquila, on passage from Newhaven to London with a crew of four, had fired red flares. She had ripped her mainsail in a sudden squall and had...
3,298 RNLI RESCUE CRAFT LAUNCHES 1 JANUARY–30 JUNE 2017
The launches listed here are those for which returns had been received at RNLI Headquarters and processed by 25 July 2017
Behind every launch, new lifeboat and naming ceremony listed in this section is a community of...
Category: Articles
The Winning Photographs
The winners of the Institution's photographic competition which closed on 3ist October are Mr. W. Aldiss, of Sparrow Hall, Hindringham, Fakenham, Norfolk, and Mr. J. H. Hughes, mechanic of Criccieth life-boat, North...
Category: Articles
Is It War?
A LITTLE while ago a woman visitor at one of the life-boat stations was talking one evening to the motor mechanic near the life-boathouse. As they talked they watched an aeroplane passing overhead. It was just above them when the life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Longshore Boats Schemz and Judith Ann
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a small boat was trapped under the north pier and that cries for help had been heard by the...
Gustaf E. Ruter (1)
Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...