LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nature of Services By Life-Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor-vessels, steamers, barges, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers, and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...
Category: Services
Dorothy and Sun Beam
The local fishing cobles put to sea on the morning of the 2nd November, but bad weather got up and by 7.15 A.M. all of them, except the Dorotkyand the Sunbeam, had returned.
At 9.30 A.M. a strong N.W. gale was blowing, with...
Plymouth's 52' Barnett Class Lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse (Left) Has Recently Been Replaced By a 44' Waveney Steel Self-Righting Lifeboat Thomas Fore
Plymouth's 52' Barnett class lifeboat, Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse (left), has recently been replaced by a 44' Waveney steel self-righting lifeboat, Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II: she is this issue's cover picture.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Sir Charles Mcgrigor Convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council and Miss Lloyd Jones on February 9 Visited Ardrossan Ladies' Guild This Year Awarded a Vellum
(right) Sir Charles McGrigor, Convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, and Miss Lloyd Jones on February 9 visited Ardrossan ladies' guild, this year awarded a vellum by the Council. From 1960 to 1976 its annual totals have risen from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
LONG SEARCH IN A FOG Margate, Kent.—At 9.32 on the night of the 12th of October, 1947, the coast- guard reported that a boy who had gone fishing in a dinghy off the Ness at 8 o'clock that morning, had not been seen since. The motor...
Enfant de Bretagne
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
Foresters Friendly to RNLI history
Foresters Friendly Society, which has an enduring relationship with the RNLI, is sponsoring the RNLI Heritage Trust through 2011.
The sponsorship coincides with the RNLI being chosen by the Society’s High Chief Ranger,...
Category: Articles
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues each year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Category: Articles
Literature of the Life-Boat: 1806-1936
SIR JOHN GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution, has written an account of all books, and articles in periodicals, on life-boat work which the Institution has in its library, or which he has been able to discover...
Category: Articles
The Women of Boulmer. Seven Hours on Duty In a December Night's Blizzard
ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.
Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collier which loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...
Category: Services