LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wreck of the 'Pomona'
Os the morning of the 30th April, 1859, one of the most disastrous wrecks on record occurred on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, by which melancholy event no less than 385 persons perished.
The American clipper...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund are to be congratulated on the admirable zeal and praiseworthy enthusiasm with which the local Life- boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have every where, apparently, been...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.
THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 134 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 33 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1937 65,196 H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.
Presidential ...
Category: Meetings
The Norwegian Shark Fishing Boat Lestholm
APRIL 7TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
The Norwegian Shark fishing boat Lestholm had got into difficulties, but was taken in tow by another Norwegian boat. - Rewards, £14 1s..
Master and commander
An RNLI coxswain must be brave but what else does it take to inspire the confidence and trust of a modern-day crew?
On 9 July 2010, Mike Lawrence was not only in charge of Calshot’s Tyne class Alexander Coutanche but also...
Category: Articles
Trapped up to their waists
Morecambe | 4 September
When an elderly couple got trapped up to their waists in mud -with the tide coming in- Morecambe RNLI's hovercraft crew flew to the...
Category: Articles
A Small Sailing Boat
APRIL 29TH. - POOLBEG, CO. DUBLIN.
At 6.50 in the evening a message was received from the harbour master at Dun Laoghaire that a small sailing boat off Poolbeg needed help. A strong north-west breeze was blowing, with a...
Relief Brede:
Relief Brede: RNLB Enid of Yorkshire, a 33ft Brede for the RNLI's relief fleet, after her naming in Bridlington Harbour on June 22. photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Christine
Information was brought to the Lifeboat Station at 7.30 A.M. on the 18th February that a schooner was ashore close to the new entrance of the North Esk Kiver, about 3\ miles N., in Montrose Bay.
The Life-boatmen were at...
(Right) the Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats Is Responsible for the Efficient Operation of Lifeboats In His Area and Carries Out Frequent Exercises With His Coxswains and Cre
(Right) The divisional inspector of lifeboats is responsible for the efficient operation of lifeboats in his area and carries out frequent exercises with his coxswains and crews. He works in close co-operation with the district engineer, who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs