LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
The pride of the RNLIA dip into the archives of theLifeboat reveals page after page of award-winning RNLI rescues - and the bravery of crew members continues. But how does the RNLI choose those extra-special services that merit an award?A...
Category: Services
Windflower
Margate, Kent.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht with a capsized boat alongside was calling for help off Birchington.
The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
Herne Bay Branch's 1983
The Viking conquerors who, invading the Kentish coast last July with their twin-hulled Nor-dick, defeated 42 other rafts in Herne Bay branch's 1983 raft race by being voted best raft and crew and by collecting the most in sponsorship,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Steamer John L. Sullivan, of San Francisco
JUNE 11TH. - WALMER, KENT. A request was received for the services of the life-boat to take out a doctor to a sick man on the American steamer John L. Sullivan, of San Francisco, which was lying in Trinity Bay. A south-west wind was blowing,...
Douglas Isle of Man—Birthplace of the Rnli By Joan Davies
JUST AS at a time of family celebration, wherever its members may be, their thoughts will turn to home, so in the spring of 1974 the thoughts of the RNLI and its friends must inevitably turn to Douglas; the little seaport on the Isle of Man...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1951
Persons rescued from shipwreck Kilmore life-boat landed a sick man from the Coningbeg lightvessel.
Fishing coble Premier, of Scarborough. Scarborough life-boat escorted coble.
Fishing boat Isa Simpson, of...
Category: Services
Viking
Two saved after ten-hour service in south westerly gale Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Waveney class lifeboatBarham was involved in an arduous, ten-hour service to a yacht on 10 July 1988. The service, in gale force conditions, has been...
Little Zakery
Swanage, Dorset. At 9.22 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man from the yacht Little Zakery of Hamble, which was ashore on a reef near Old Harry Rocks, had been landed by...
Jacana
Tidal race DURING THE AFTERNOON Of Sunday August 28,1983, Swanage lifeboat crew were assembled after consultation between the station's deputy launching authority (DLA) and Swanage Coastguard. An 18ft yacht had been sighted trying to...
Elleana
Wells, Norfolk.—About 11.40 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the motor yacht Elleana, of Great Yarmouth, appeared to be in difficulties outside the harbour. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at noon...