LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Station Secretaries
THE Institution has recently lost three very distinguished secretaries of life- boat stations, for whose long services it is very grateful.
Mr. Alexander Robertson, of Eastbourne Mr. Alexander Robertson, of East- bourne,...
Category: Obituaries
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE The 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat stationed at Amble in Northumberland launches into the surf on exercise earlier this year. So far in 1986 there have been 750 services by inflatable lifeboats and .*/- lives saved. While... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rescue Party Waits to Take An Injured Man from Aboard the Teignmouth Lifeboat to Hospital.
A rescue party waits to take an injured man from aboard the Teignmouth lifeboat to hospital. The man had fallen down cliffs on 18 March at Ansley's Cove in Torquay and suffered a broken ankle. He was carried a further 30ft to the base of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jenny
Beam trawler ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1977, at 2132, the 23-ton beam trawler Jenny reported on Channel 16 VHP that she was in difficulty and unable to manoeuvre in heavy weather some eight miles south south east of Nab...
February
FEBRUARY 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.37 A.M. the Cromer coastguard telephoned that a vessel, about one and a half miles north of Cromer, had reported that she had a man on board dangerously ill. The coastguard also...
Category: Services
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1986 the RNLFs lifeboats launched 3,641 times (an average of over nine times each day) and saved 1,398 lives (an average of over three people rescued each day).
Over 44 per cent of all services carried...
Category: Articles
Marathon Effort
The Flora London Marathon is one of the UK’s most breathtaking fundraising events and this year 200 people ran as part of Team RNLI. Their combined and considerable efforts raised approximately £300,000, most of which will go towards...
Category: Articles
The Ferry Boat Wallasey
DECEMBER 28TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 4.50 in the afternoon a message was received from the New Brighton stage that the ferryboat Wallasey was ashore north of Seacombe, with passengers on board.
A slight south-east...
Glen Cora
At 5.15 P.M. on the 5th December a pilot boat with three men on board put out in response to what was thought to be a signal for a pilot. The weather was very thick, with a moderate easterly breeze. The three men found a yacht, the Glen Cora...
Cliff Rescue Training for One of the 8500 Auxiliary Coastguards
Cliff Rescue Training For One of the 8500 Auxiliary Coastguards. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs