LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
ART OF GLASS
Our cover photo and the images in our piece about Shetland life were made by Jack Lowe using a Victorian process called wet plate collodion
Jack plans to visit all 237 RNLI crews as part of the Lifeboat Station Project,...
Category: Articles
Talking With Dr Sydney Peace of Orkney By Joan Davies
LISTEN TO Dr Sydney Peace and, underlying all that he says, you will hear the ring of his abiding love of the sea. You will also hear the echoes of his deep respect of all seafaring people and in particular for the lifeboatmen of Orkney,...
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1872
CAPTAIN HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., R.N., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide second...
Category: Meetings
Boy Jimmy
Cromer, Norfolk.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of June, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat was returning to Cromer in his fishing boat, when another fishing boat, the White Rose, which had just put to sea, hailed...
A Nelson Aboard the Nelsons of Donaghadee: Quintan One of the Nelson Family Members of Which Have Served In the Donaghadee Lifeboat Since the Station Was Establis
A Nelson aboard The Nelsons of Donaghadee: Quintan, one of the Nelson family, members of which have served in the Donaghadee lifeboat since the station was established in 1910 and after whom the new 44' Waveney lifeboat is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Jetski
Survivor story After being rescued by Tramore's lifeboat on 26 March, Rob Howorth thanked the RNLI for saving his life: 'I was playing on my friend's jetski inTramore bay, when it stopped running, leaving me in the water....
St. Pierre
Storm tow HARTLAND POINT Coastguard informed lifeboat 70-001, Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), at 0210 on February 6 that a trawler was sinking 281°T 26 miles from the Point. The lifeboat was under way by 0220 and 12 minutes...
Whitby Ilb Crew Members: (I to R) David Wharton Michael Coates Brian Hodgson and Barry Mason Photograph By Courtesy of Tindale's of Whitby
Whitby ILB crew members: (I. to r.) David Wharton, Michael Coates, Brian Hodgson and Barry Mason. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Tindale's of Whitby.. - View image in PDF
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JUNE 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 1 P.M. the harbour master telephoned to the coxswain asking for the lifeboat to go to Alderney to take off six people, two of whom were injured and would have to travel on stretchers. This was a part...
Atlantic 21 Mobile Dock By Ray Kipling
A DRIVE-OFF TROLLEY, SELF-POWERED OR PROPELLED BY SEPARATE TRACTOR, FOR LAUNCHING AND RECOVERY ON EXPOSED BEACHES by Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer, RNLI A DRIVE-OFF TROLLEY, SELF-POWERED OR PROPELLED BY SEPARATE TRACTOR, FOR...
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