LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rowing Rabbi of Maidenhead
A race with a difference took place in Berkshire in aid of the RNLI. When the minister of Maidenhead Synagogue, Rabbi Jonathan Romain, heard that the ancient Cookham regatta was to be revived he proposed that one of the races be entitled the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
THE photograph shows Coxswain Harold Parkinson, of Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. He became coxswain in April, 1959, and was awarded the Institution's bronze medal in 1962 for the rescue of the four members of a yacht's crew. He... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
German Thanks
A COURT of enquiry, held in Germany, into the stranding of the motor tanker D. L. Harper at the Lizard, on 20th June, in a heavy fog, issued its judg- ment in December. In the course of it the Court said : " The readiness of the...
Category: Articles
That sinking feeling
MACDUFF AND BUCKIE | 21 JUNE
A lone skipper triggered an early morning rescue on Father’s Day after snagging a propeller and finding that his vessel had been holed. The boat – a decommissioned trawler...
Category: Articles
RNLI News
Volunteer action awards TJie Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards are recognised as one of the UK's most prestigious community award schemes.
Fundraising and operational volunteers with the RNLI are eligible for the awards...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches
THE question may be asked, what hare the com- munities living incur large commercial centres, and the large inland towns of the United King- dom, in common with the work of the life-saving apparatus on the sea coast ? Why should they be...
Category: Branches
Self Righting Explained By Stuart Welford
WHAT ARE THE FORCES WHICH, WHEN HARNESSED, WILL MAKE A BOAT RIGHT HERSELF? by Stuart Welford, MiMechE MRINA Research and Development Officer, RNLITHE RNLI FLEET has included selfrighting lifeboats for well over one hundred years—since 1851...
Category: Articles
Joan
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that the sailing dinghy Joan, with two men and a boy on board, had capsized a hundred yards north-east of the...
Unity
During a strong N.E. gale in the evening of 8th January one of the anchor chains, to which the schooner Unity, of Carnarvon, was lying at anchor in a dangerous part of Fishguard Bay, parted. There were four persons on board the schooner, and...
M.F.V. Dumnonia
PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie...