LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Love our lifesavers
We celebrated the work of some very special RNLI volunteers at our Annual Presentation of Awards in May. Here we feature Natasha Lambert, and two other dedicated volunteers
The RNLI has no...
Category: Articles
The Sir Godfrey Baring, at Clacton-On-Sea
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E , chairman of the Institution, presenting the life-boat to the station. On his right is Lady Baring (See page 403). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the Launching of the Aldeburgh Life-Boat, August 18th, 1891
WHAT is more precious than a human life, But what more frail ? What stronger in its might.
Or lovelier in its strength, than the fair sight Of noble man contending with the strife Of some more powerful foe ? Such is our...
Category: Poetry
Lerwick: After Standing By the Listing Fred Everard All Night on Her Slow Progress Towards Lerwick Through Gale Force Winds As the List Increased the 52' Barnett Relief L
Lerwick: After standing by the listing Fred Everard all night, on her slow progress towards Lerwick through gale force winds, as the list increased, the 52' Barnett relief lifeboat Ramsay Dyce took off her chief engineer's wife and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Specialist training for new crew, supported by The LRET
With only 1 in 10 joining the RNLI from a professional maritime occupation, training is especially important. Formerly, inshore and all-weather crew were trained separately – now, they are taught the core skills together, increasing both...
Category: Articles
International Lifeboat Exhibition
PLYMOUTH, JULY 19. A brilliant day with the sun beating down on a cluster of white marquees in West Hoe Park, close by the sea; an atmosphere of cheerful expectancy; flags flying; the Royal Marine Band breaking into the gaiety of...
Category: Articles
Brighton's Atlantic 21 Lifeboat on Exercise In Heavy Seas the Photograph Was Taken By Alan Young Helmsman of the Lifeboat for the Service Described Below
Brighton's Atlantic 21 lifeboat on exercise in heavy seas. The photograph was taken by Alan Young, helmsman of the lifeboat for the service described below.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain H T 'shrimp' Danes Presents the Lifeboat Cup to the Captain of Gimmingham the Winning Team In Cromer's 1975 Football Final
Coxswain H. T. 'Shrimp' Danes presents the Lifeboat Cup to the captain of Gimmingham, the winning team in Cromer's 1975 football final.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Heilo
On 2nd January a wireless message was received that a steamer, the Heilo, of Oslo, was dis- abled with a broken rudder sixty-five miles away in the Atlantic with a trawler standing by. A whole W.S.W.
gale was blowing with a...
Ugunjeema
Two days later—Sunday—a violent northerly gale, with blinding showers of snow and sleet prevailed, and at about 3 P.M. a barque was observed off Skate- raw, displaying signals of distress. The Life-boat William Arthur Milhvard was at...