LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
They've done us a flavour!
What could be better after a hard day’s work, whether at sea or on land, than a hot bowl of soup?
This March, New Covent Garden Soup Co launches a new flavour – Chunky Chipotle Chilli Bean and Chorizo – sales of which...
Category: Articles
Memorial garden update
There's never been a better time to visit the UK’s National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.
The RNLI section of the arboretum has just been redesigned, courtesy of expert garden designer Chris Beardshaw,...
Category: Articles
Solar flair
Solar panels on the roof of RNLI College in Poole, Dorset, are reducing our carbon footprint and saving money.
Within 3 weeks of installation, the panels had generated their first megawatt hour of power – worth £430....
Category: Articles
Hannah's paddle mission
Transatlantic sailor Hannah White paddled up a wave of RNLI support in September during a record-breaking 205-mile solo kayak challenge.
Hannah, who is also an adventurer and broadcaster, became the first person to paddle...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Boadicea
In consequence of a telegram from Margate that the Tongue lightship was tiring for assistance, the Bradford Lifeboat and steam-tug Vulcan left the harbour at midnight on the 6th December, during a fresh gale from the E.N.E., with snow and a...
Resolute
JANUARY 28TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.42 A.M. the coastguard reported that a sailing barge had struck a mine to the S. by E., three quarters of a mile from Holland look-out hut, and had blown up. A light S.W. breeze was blowing...
Golden Lily, of Swansea
APRIL 14TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 12.50 in the morning word was brought to the lifeboat coxswain that a vessel was in distress.
A south-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 1.15 the motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched...
The Admiralty L.C.T. 534
DECEMBER 13TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 8.20 A.M. the Deal coastguard asked for the life-boat crew to be assembled. At 9.18 A.M. a further message came that vessel was over the Brake Sands, and the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin...
Phoenix 121
AUGUST 31ST. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 5.55 in the evening the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the naval and military authorities requested the services of the lifeboat to take out a relief crew and provisions to one of the caissons of...
Douglas Naming Ceremony
THE naming ceremony of the new lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, was held on June 3rd, 1948, with a gale blowing and such heavy rain throughout the day, that it was impossible to hold it in the open. It took place inside the boathouse, and...
Category: Inaugurations