LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat Fairy Queen
During a strong south-easterly gale on the 10th August, the pilots at this place observed a boat, about eight miles to the N.E., with a signal at her mast-head. The Christopher Brown Life-boat proceeded to it, but found that the boat was...
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Stranded in cave THREE CLIFF CLIMBERS, missing west of Anvil Point, were reported to Swanage lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1733 on Saturday November 29, 1980; the station's 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat J. Reginald Corah, was launched...
Coxswain William Sinclair, of Aberdeen
Awarded the silver medal for gallantry and a second-service clasp to it in 1937. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above Left) Some of the Orange Paini Flaked Off
(above teft) Some of the orange paini flaked off - but Phit Weeks discovers that a lot of it is still well stuck,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
A New Life-Boat Engine
THERE is one very important difference between the designing of a Life-boat and the designing of her engine.
The requirements of the Institution, so far as hulls are concerned, are quite special. No other small craft are...
Category: Articles
All hands!
Thousands of volunteers and hundreds of staff are needed to provide back-up to the RNLI’s lifesavers – so how does the charity find the right people for the job?
‘The Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches...
Category: Articles
Teymar (6)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
Scotland Community News
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Photos: The Press and Journal, RNLI/(Buckie, Longhope, Mary Harris)
Local stations mark 50th...
Category: Articles
Nabro
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At four in the afternoon of the 16th of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing boat two miles east- north-east of Queen's Pier was flying a flag "I am disabled; communicate with me,"...