LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 2,518 times, saving 1,046 lives.
In 1986 lifeboats launched 3,723 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,424 lives (an average of...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Boat Piper
FOUR RESCUED FROM CONVERTED SHIP'S BOAT Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.54 on the morning of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a request had been received from the Blyth honorary secretary for the help of...
Breeze
FRASERBURGH.—The schooner Breeze, of and from Sunderland, bound for Dingwall with a cargo of coal, was observed to be in danger in Fraserburgh bay while a N.W. gale was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea on the 3rd February. The Life-boat...
In at the deep end
What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...
'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Skandinavian
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.
The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...
A Small Boat from a Trawler
FEBRUARY 8TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
Three R.A.F. men were engaged in salving an aeroplane on the Goodwin Sands. They were working in a small boat from a trawler.
Their boat capsized leaving them stranded on...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
At the last annual meeting of the Com- mittee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES, chief clerk of the House of Lords, the honorary secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.E.G.S., reported that during the past year...
Category: Meetings
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Category: Advertisement
Braemar
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - On 22nd/23rd May, 1967, the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched to the assistance of the yacht Braemar. A full account of this service will appear in the December number of the journal..
Right: New Year's Day Also Saw Revellers Taking the Plunge at the Annual Loony Dook
Right: New Year's Day also saw revellers taking the plunge at the annual Loony Dook in the Firth of Forth. Alice KenneCy gets a helping hand from South Queensferry lifeboat crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs