LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flower Power
John and Bet Waring, left, with Sutton Coldfield branch secretary, chairman and RNLI area organiser for Wales and West Mercia. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helmsman; Crew
helmsman; Crew Members John Ashford, Brian Gaunter and Derek Winning were taken ashore together with a bucket stretcher (itself on trial) and an Ashford first aid pack. The best ledge from which to embark the boy was 35ft above the sea, but... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salcombe's Successful Disasters
The RNLI is working nationally with many safety-related bodies to promote safety at sea, but the Island Cruising Club and its local lifeboat station are already working well together...
Richard Johnstone-Bryden reports from...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
Category: Advertisement
The Wreck of the Anzio I
ON the night of 2nd /3rd April, 1966, the motor vessel Anzio I went aground.
The Humber life-boat was launched. She was unable to save any lives, but for the attempt which she made in extremely severe conditions Coxswain...
Category: Services
Jacques Colin
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 2nd of December, 1955, an ex-coxswain of the life-boat heard a wireless distress call from a French trawler in the direction of Skipsea. At 11.55 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield...
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Category: Articles
A Contrast
IT is a lovely morning in July, the morning after the Royal St. George's Regatta.
Kingstown Harbour is bright and beautiful with the taper masts and snowy canvas of a whole fleet of yachts. An " ocean race"...
Category: Articles
The Ukranian Cargo Ship Kaptain Dzhurashevich
International assistance from Westcountry lifeboat Penlee's relief Arun class A.J.R. and L.G. Uridge is pictured with two casualties, dealt with in a two-week period.
The lifeboat is pictured preparing to take an...
Privileged View
On Monday 22 October 2007 I accepted an invitation from Skegness Coxswain John Irving to join some training. By 5.30pm the waterproof tractor was attached to the carriage and the Mersey class lifeboat The Lincolnshire Poacher was towed out...
Category: Articles