LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Depot at Boreham Wood
THE Life-boat Institution's depot at Boreham Wood was completed in July, 1939. It replaced the old store-yard on the Thames at Poplar, which had served the Institution for more than fifty years.
The Poplar store-yard...
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Excel
On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.
That night nine Life-boats...
Extraordinary people
RNLI volunteers were recognised with the prestigious Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Volunteering Award in December 2012.
We’re one of just 60 organisations to receive this one-off award that marks the Jubilee and Olympic year.<...
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RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every 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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The Duke of Atholl, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, visited six lifeboat stations in the south west of England on January 14 and 15:
The Duke of Atholl, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, visited six lifeboat stations in the south west of England on January 14 and 15: Salcomhe, Torhay, Exmonth, Lyme Regis, Swanage and Poole. He aha took part in fund raising discussions and is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Return from exercise: Portrush's 46' 9" Watson lifeboat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) returns to harbour. A housed slipway boat built in 1949, she has, since going on station, launched on service 127 times and rescued 69... - View image in PDF
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(Left) With Coxswain Malcolm Macdonald
(Left) With Coxswain Malcolm MacDonald at her helm, the 52ft Arun, Sir Max Aitken II demonstrates her handling to Princess Alexandra and other guests in Cowes Harbour. - View image in PDF
photographs by Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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An American Thunderjet Fighter (2)
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
It Had Never Been Done Before—Not Surprisingly—
/(had never been done before—not surprisingly—so this intrepid group set out to do it: (I to r) Ray Hea/ey, his wife Maureen, Remo Mele, Gillian Earles and George McLeod. The feat was to water ski the 50 miles between Lochinver and Stornoway... - View image in PDF
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Liberty
Dragging on to rocks AT 1704 on Sunday September 9, 1984, the honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station was informed by Hartland Coastguard that the yacht Liberty needed immediate assistance as she was dragging her anchor close in to...