LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Deadly Oil Slick - An Aerial View of the Tanker Torrey Canyon
The deadly oil slick - an aerial view of the tanker Torrey Canyon whose stranding on the treacherous Seven Stone Rocks near the Scilly Isles on 19th March, 1967, was the most expensive loss of its kind in maritime history. The St Mary's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (39)
OC T O B E R 3 1 S T . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A steamer had been in distress off the coast of Tiree, but she was taken in tow by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £20 9s..
Notes of the Quarter
In 1966 the value of the inshore rescue boat as a means of saving life at sea has been proved beyond all possible doubt. It was only in 1963 that these boats were first used operationally, largely as an experiment. So successful have they...
Category: Articles
Call to Action
Lifeboat crew members are renowned for mostly being volunteers and they are called to action from their ‘day job’ by pager alert (see page 14). In contrast, most RNLI lifeguards are paid (usually through local authority funding) as, when...
Category: Articles
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Month of December, 1874
wtck. Site of Wreck. Wind and Weather. Name of Vessel. 1874.
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Category: Services
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Mrs.
Louisa Taylor, one of the launchers at Newbiggin, Northumberland. The Newbiggin women were awarded the Institution's thanks on vellum for helping to haul the life-boat up a cliff,...
Category: Articles
Groombridge Award
The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award for the most meritorious rescue by an inshore lifeboat crew in 2009 has been given to Whitstable Helm Jonathan Carter and Crew Members Tony Martin and Henry Thomson. The crew saved the life of a man...
Category: Articles
Classified Advertisements
Wordage: £5.50 per single column centimetre (minimum charge £16.50. NB: The minimum of 3cm takes about 45 words at 15 words per cm). With illustration: £12 per single column centimetre (minimum charge...
Category: Advertisement
Mrs Hutchings' Scrapbooks
IN the early hours of 24th March, 1964, the Sennen Cove life-boat Susan Ashley rescued the crew of the French trawler Victoire Roger from under the cliffs at Land's End. The coxswain was awarded a bronze second service clasp for...
Category: Articles
John Bull
DE C . 8 T H . - TORBAY, DEVON. At 9 A.M. a message was received that the motor fishing boat John Bull, of Torquay, which had gone to sea the previous morning, had not returned. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing with a rough sea. At 9.45 A.M....