LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
South West Division French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had...
Category: Services
(Above) the Last of the Rnli's Pulling Lifeboats
(Above) The last of the RNLI's pulling lifeboats, Robert and Ellen Robson, goes afloat again at Whitby: During lifeboat day demonstrations the combined ages of her 12-man crew came to 742 years.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nicholas Schrager Who Owns the Victorian Thames Motorboat Duchess Doreen and Who Uses Her As a Floating Restaurant Offered His Craft and Cuisine to Molesey Branch for One Evening By Raf
Nicholas Schrager, who owns the Victorian Thames motorboat Duchess Doreen and who uses her as a floating restaurant, offered his craft and cuisine to Molesey branch for one evening. By raffling the 12 places available £270 was earned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Category: Articles
Eugenie S. Embiricos
JANUARY 21 ST. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. The life-boat rescued twenty eight people from the Greek steamer Eugenie S. Embiricos on January 22nd and landed sheep and provisions on January 26th. For details, see January 10th, page 12.
A Motor Boat (1)
S c a r b o r o u g h , Yorkshire.—4th August, 1939. A motor boat \vas seen flying a distress signal, but she was towed in by another boat.—Rewards, £13 12*. 6d.~.
East Reading District Scout Council Organised 'Operation Sealion' a Sponsored Paddle Against the Clock from Bristol to Reading Along the Kennet and Avon Canal 120 S
East Reading District Scout Council organised 'Operation Sealion', a sponsored paddle against the clock from Bristol to Reading, along the Kennet and Avon Canal. 120 Scouts, in relays, got their 12' aluminium boat along the 90... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Whaley Bridge Branch
The Whaley Bridge branch committee members and their spouses await the arrival of 500 local people who, over the last 12 years, have supported their annual ploughman's lunch held in the barn and grounds of Mrs A Leonard, the branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Newbiggin Lifeboat Station In Northumberland
12 June 1999 - Crowds around Newbiggin lifeboat station in Northumberland witness the opening of the refurbished and extended boathouse when former station honorary secretary.
Jack Smith, unveiled a plaque to mark the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scarborough- Mersey Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs
HRH The Duchess of Kent returns to harbour aboard Scarborough's new Mersey class Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs after the naming ceremony on 9 September.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs