LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saved By a Motor Lifeboat
While sifting through film archives at RNLI headquarters in Poole, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, Jon Jones discovered an unknown and very rusty film canister...
The mysterious canister was handed to Sue Denny,...
Category: Articles
The kindness of strangers
Kevin Payne dreamed of starting a new life by the Mediterranean. On 2 July 2007, he left Southampton in his 25m converted trawler Abundance, with friend George, Daisy the dog, Fluffy the cat, and everything he owned onboard. Mairéad...
Category: Articles
Right: Arklow crew aboard their Trent class lifeboat Ger Tigchelaar help charity swimmer Patrick Kelly after he got into difficulties during a Lion's Club St.Stephen's Day swim
Right: Arklow crew aboard their Trent class lifeboat Ger Tigchelaar help charity swimmer Patrick Kelly after he got into difficulties during a Lion's Club St Stephen's Day swim. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Edinburgh Merchant Seamen
WE notice with pleasure that growing interest by public men in the concerns of the seamen of the country, which is always one of the signs indicative of the importance of any particular matter be-ginning to be realised by the nation at large...
Category: Articles
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
THBEE presentations of Centenary Vel- lums to stations have taken place since last summer—at Sunderland and Hartle- pool last October, and at Newhaven in April of...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Ship Maria Asumpta
Three lifeboats search for survivors from wrecked sailing ship Lifeboats from three stations were involved in the search for survivors when the 137-year-old sailing ship Maria Asumpta foundered after running ashore on the rocky North...
Teymar
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...
Lifeboat Services from Page 118
The year before (left, below) a guest for Walton and Frinton lifeboats' run was Mr Miller (I.), a physiotherapist who, blind himself, does much to help other blind people: with him is Bowman Bobby Kemp.
photographs by...
Category: Services
The RNLI and me: Neil Oliver
The lead presenter of the BBC’s long-running Coast series shares his admiration for our supporters and lifesavers – especially the volunteers who rescued him …
You’ve come face to...
Category: Articles
Several Fishing Vessels
On the 6th December after dark, several of the fishing vessels of the port being known to be off it, and expected to take the bar of the river under somewhat trying circumstances, the Life- boat China was held in readiness. It was blowing a...