LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admirality Mine Sweeper No. 48
At 9 A.M. on the 29th December, when the Life-boat Queensbury was moored in the Harbour after returning from the s.s. Gallier at 4 A.M. that morning, a naval officer requested to be placed on board the Admiralty Mine-sweeper No. 48. As a...
A Speed Boat
Survivor from wrecked speedboat rescued from base of 35ft cliff Lough Swilly lifeboat crew members Bernard Devlin and Mark Porter have been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum following the...
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. (Continued from "Life-Boat Journal," August, 1917, p. 198.) By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon. Secretary
THR Second Coxswain, who is also a harbour pilot, was put aboard with three men, and they tried to get the vessel* to the harbour, but the tide and wind set her into Dunwich Bight close to the shore ; at one time it looked like the barge...
Category: Articles
Checking Out the Fowey Lifeboat
Anna Chatt-Collins and Pat Stewart, who both work in the Physiotherapy department at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, walked ten miles along the Dorset coast westwards from Lulworth Cove and collected £300 for the Fowey... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Artificer
NORTH DEAL, WALMEH, AND RAMS- GATE, KENT.—The Life-boats Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 4, and Charles and Susanna Stephens were launched a few minutes after midnight on the 4th- 5th April, in answer to signals of distress, the steamer...
A Small Boat
Information was received at mid-day on the 4th January that a small boat, in which two youths had gone fishing at 4 A.M., was overdue, and the Coast- guard at Marsden reported that a small boat about three miles to the...
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1934
DURING 1934 services were rendered off the shores of foreign countries to 34 British vessels in distress, and 69 lives were rescued from them. Of these lives 22 were rescued off the Danish coast and 44 off the coast of...
Category: Services
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 16 Lives rescued 11 INISHBOFIN, CO. GALWAY. During the morning of the 4th of January, 1943, the Valentia radio received a message that the Barrister, of Liverpool, was ashore off Skird Rocks. Later the position was given Inishshark...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Lexicon
Continuing our occasional series explaining lifeboat terms and operations Awards for Gallantry The RNLI has been making awards for gallantry since it was founded 175 years ago. In that time the system has evolved, both keeping pace with the...
Category: Articles
Love our lifesavers
We celebrated the work of some very special RNLI volunteers at our Annual Presentation of Awards in May. Here we feature Natasha Lambert, and two other dedicated volunteers
The RNLI has no...
Category: Articles