LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Calendar for 1932
THE Life-boat Calendar for 1932 is now ready. It has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting which Mr.
Charles Dixon, R.I., has very kindly done for the Institution called " At the Height of the Storm." It...
Category: Advertisement
The Rye Disaster. Result of the Board of Trade Inquiry
Owing to the Rye disaster, and the Board of Trade Inquiry which was held on it, the issue of THE LIFEBOAT which should have been published in February has been delayed, as it was felt to be most important that it should contain the full...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Centenarian
MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.
He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...
Category: Articles
FROM FESTIVITIES TO FLOOD WATERS
Our Flood Rescue Team went to the aid of hundreds of people during Winter floods – including a stranded family
It should have been an exciting, festive family stay in Cumbria. But when young brothers Sebastian and Jacob...
Category: Articles
Lochinver's New Boat
On 25th July, 1969, the ceremony for opening Culag Pier took place at the same time as the arrival of the new Lochinver, Scotland, life-boat the George Urie Scott. The new boat—she is a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley Mark III type—was provided by a...
Category: Donations
A Dinghy and a Boat
Whitstable, Kent. At approximately 2.15 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties a half a mile off shore. At 2.20 the IRB launched in a strong southwesterly...
Nick of time
A boat with its own fascinating RNLI history set out on a perfect day last Summer. Little did her crew know it was to be her last voyage …
‘We set off in ideal conditions – you couldn’t have...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Malcolm Grant, the winner of the Volvo 440 Li car which was first prize in the RNLI's 60th national lottery owes his thanks to comedian Billy Burden, who drew his winning ticket. The popular comedian, who was curently appearing as Mr...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
FIGURES already available show that the year 1958 has been similar to the two preceding years in the demands made on life-boat crews. When a record figure for peacetime of 745 launches on service was established in 1956, this seemed an...
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Lauton
Information having been received at this station about 9 A.M.
on the 30th November, at which time it was blowing a gale from the N.E., ac- companied by snow squalls, that a vessel had been wrecked on the Fidra Island, 3...