LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Puffin
TOW FOR DINGHY WITH FIVE YOUNG MEN ABOARD Swanage, Dorset. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a visitor had reported seeing a sailing dinghy dismasted about one mile northeast of Peveril...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HORNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—A new life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S design, has been placed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Horn- sea, in lieu of an old boat at that place, which was of an unwieldy and inferior construction, and in which the...
Category: Articles
Triharda
Crew saved after long and difficult service to capsized trimaran Yarmouth's Arun Joy and John Wade was involved in a service on 11 December 1993 which made headlines in the national press. The lifeboat had spent nearly five hours at sea ...
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. About eight, in the morning of 12th June, 1940, two men and a boy, who were out fishing in a motor boat near the East Margate buoy, saw two aeroplanes fighting seven miles to the N.E., and one of the...
Category: Services
Mrs Beryl Robertson of Alfred Terrace Walton Essex Helped By Her Mother Mrs Win Garratt Collected 150 Ib of Stamps from Friends and Local Shops During the Past Year R
Mrs Beryl Robertson of Alfred Terrace Walton, Essex, helped by her mother Mrs Win Garratt, collected 150 Ib of stamps from friends and local shops during the past year realising £40 which she gave to the RNLI.
Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Net results
Harvesting the fruit of the sea has been a way of life since the first hunter–gatherers left their footprints in the muds of time – and it’s close to the heart of the RNLI too
The earliest of...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (166)
NOVEMBER 23RD. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
At 1.15 P.M. the Portpatrick coastguard reported that fire and smoke had been seen some miles S.S.W. of Ravenshall Point, and fifteen minutes later the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported...
Letters
Thanks, Whitby (see photograph, page 187) I am one of the pupils of Brinsworth Whitehill Junior School and I am writing to say how grateful we are to the RNLI at Whitby for rescuing us from the cliffs on Tuesday, March 19. It was the second...
Category: Correspondence
Charley Lloyd the Second Rnli Lifeboat Stationed at Thurso
Charley Lloyd, the second RNLI lifeboat stationed at Thurso. - View image in PDF
Between 1871 and 1890 she saved 255 lives.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fairweather Father (1)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Poole: While on passage from Guernsey to Portsmouth on Thursday August 19, 1982, the 30ft ferro-concrete gaff sloop Fairweather Father broke her rudder 18 miles south west by south of the Needles Lighthouse. A...