LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dive Boat (1)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
The Year 1939
IN 1939 the number of launches on service and the number of lives rescued were both the largest in the history of the Institution.
There were 685 launches, that is 200 more than the 485 launches in 1938, which was up to...
Category: Services
Quixotic
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BROUGHTY FERRY DEC. 5TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. - During the evening the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, reported by radio telephony that a small steamer had run on to the Bell Rock. At...
Quixotic (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BROUGHTY FERRY DEC. 5TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. - During the evening the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, reported by radio telephony that a small steamer had run on to the Bell Rock. At...
Festival In Aid of the Funds of the National Shipwreck Institution
IN the early part of March next, it is intended to hold a Public Dinner, in the City, in aid of the funds of the above Institution, and for the purpose of bringing the Society and its objects prominently before the country. His Grace the...
Category: Articles
None (25)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A red flare had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £9 1s..
None (25)
SEPTEMBER 18TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
Flares had been reported off Loop Head, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £13 16s..
Cover Picture
After the naming of The Scout by HM The Queen, Hartlepool coxswain, Robert Maiden and crew members are presented to Her Majesty by Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), and to HRH The Duke of Kent by Captain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Quest (3)
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...
Marjory Gaw
PARACHUTE FLARES SHOW YACHT IN DANGER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 9.5 on the evening of the 2nd September, 1962, the honorary secretary received messages from the coast life-saving service and the civic guards that rockets and flares had...