LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Benefactors: "Not of An Age, But for All Time." Henry Greathead. [Born 1757. Died 1813]
IT is our national boast that Britannia rules the waves, and so it was only befitting that the honour of, inventing the Life-boat should fall to the lot of a Briton. Whether or not Henry Greathead was that particular Briton has been a matter...
Category: Articles
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Tenby -- West Division Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, has one of the longest slipways in the country, its 360ft extending from the boathouse off Castle Hill into deep water. The...
Category: Articles
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Lerwick - Scotland Division Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles, lies in the midst of one of the world's wildest and most unfriendly waters - severe gales can be expected...
Category: Articles
Diving for Cash:
Diving for cash: For 12 vears regulars at the Three Cups in Stamford Bridge have been throwing their loose change down a 30ft well through port holes in the bar. Diver Phil Peace went down the well from a trapdoor behind the bar" to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Small Ads
LIFEBOAT SMALL ADS TO HELP YOU FIND YOUR WAY THE PRISMATIC HAND-HELD MARCHING COMPASS This brass compass is made in England to an extremely high standard of specification and is an improved version of the 'Standard Service Type...
Category: Advertisement
Notes and News
THE year 1921 was one of phenomenally fine weather. A very mild winter was followed by a summer of drought and an autumn almost without gales. In fact, there was no really severe weather until Christmas. The year then went out in storms, and...
Category: Articles
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Lifeboat Services June and July 1985
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: June 8, July 5, 14. 15 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 14, 15, 17, 20 (twice) and 22 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: June 27,29, 30, July 4,6.
14 (twice) and 21 Aith,...
Category: Services
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JUNE 26TH. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES. At nine in the evening a local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a woman who was seriously ill with appendicitis to Oban for an operation. As no other boat would be available until the...