LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
Twenty-one of the fishing cobles were at sea on the 17th April when a heavy ground swell got up and increased as the tide ebbed, making it quite unfit for the cobles to take the harbour. Between 8 and 9 A.M.
the fishing...
Reliance, of Whtiby
On the 11th February, the Yarmouth surf life-boat went off in reply to signals of distress from a vessel on the North Beach. A heavy gale was blowing from the S.S.E. at the time. When the life- boat arrived alongside, the sea was making a...
As Soon As News Was Received of the Missing Longhope Life-Boat a Watch Was Kept for Survivors Who Might Have Come Ashore. Here Police Officers Are Scanning the Turbule
As soon as news was received of the missing Longhope life-boat a watch was kept for survivors who might have come ashore. Here police officers are scanning the turbulent waves.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature: RNLI Family
They're some of the RNLI's most devoted supporters. They love the lifeboats.
They're hungry for knowledge about lifeboats. Some of them give all the money they own to the RNLI. They often write to Stormy Stan...
Category: Articles
On the Road
Mobile Training Unit No. 7 (MTU 7) is one of eight RNLI mobile training units which are dedicated to providing training for lifeboat crews at their own stations. The units vary in size from a small van (MTU 8) to large mobile classroom units...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Charles Jose
At 11.50 P.M. on the 17th December the Dartmouth coastguards reported that a steamer was ashore on Slapton Sands, in Start Bay.
A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, and visibility was...
Staronia
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 1.42 a.m. on 2nd August, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore off Cairnbulg point.
There was a slight sea. It was high water.
The life-boat The Duchess of Kent proceeded at...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.44 on the morning of the 9th of Sep- tember, 1956, a message was received from the coastguard that the Brighton police had reported that a girl from a capsized sailing dinghy had been found coming ashore at...
The RNLI and me: James Cracknell
WHO IS JAMES CRACKNELL?
When he retired from competitive rowing in 2006, James Cracknell OBE had two Olympic Gold Medals and six World Championship titles under his belt. In the same year, he and TV presenter/adventurer Ben Fogle...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Norfolk With Some of Her Workers at the Mansion House In 1924, Personalities at a Gala Performance In Aid of the R.N.L.I, at the Plaza Cinema, London, Between the Wars, and Th
The Duchess of Norfolk with some of her workers at the Mansion House in 1924, personalities at a gala performance in aid of the R.N.L.I, at the Plaza Cinema, London, between the wars, and three jovial flag-sellers at London Life-boat Day,...
Category: Articles