LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
Category: Services
Rnli News
A Topping idea...
It is not often that one sees the director of the RNLI wearing a hard-hat, laying concrete, sporting a sprig of yew tree and then supping a glass of ale - especially when perched on the top of a...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LIV. BULL BAY (Anglesey) The Curling, 34 feet by 7£ feet, 10 oars.
"READER, have you ever been at Ply- mouth?" asks the versatile Captain Fred- erick Marryatt in opening one of the happiest productions of...
Category: Articles
Bless this boatAs
‘The Cromer lifeboat station has such a great history and we are proud to be carrying it on,’ Paul said afterwards.
‘Although the Lester has been in use for several months and we all know the name, the naming ceremony is...
Category: Articles
Lorry in limbo
2 October: Hartlepool When a scrap metal lorry rolled forward and was left precariously hanging metres above the waters of Irvine's Quay, Hartlepool Harbour Police asked the RNLI to stand by during the rescue...
Category: Articles
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1960
£ LIFE-BOATS:— £ £ New life-boats for the following stations : On i account — Aith, Aldeburgh, Broughty Ferry, Buckie, Dunbar, Islay, Lizard-Cadgwith, Newhaven, Penlee, Port Patrick, ...
Category: Accounts
14-year-old Will And His Mum Carolyne Are Glad To Be Reunited
14-year-old Will and his mum carolyne are glad to be reunited Photo: RNLI/Eleanor Driscoll. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Income and Expenditure for 1932
Life-boats :—• EXPENDITURE.
s. d. £ s. d.
New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberystwyth, Aldeburgh, Anstruther, Arbroath, Barra Island, Donaghadee,...
Category: Accounts
Mary B.
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Scotland Community news
MAKING WAVES IN DUNBAR
In January, a group of young surfers from the Wave Project – an organisation that helps young people reduce anxiety and increase confidence through its award-winning surf courses – paid a visit to...
Category: Articles