LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Courtown: Buzzcut for the Boats
Courtown Sailing Club (CSC) member Paddy Mac Namara has raised €1,760 for the RNLI. Paddy let his hair grow for a year and then had it all shaved off – branding his event a Buzzcut for the Boats. The very generous donations came from members...
Category: Articles
U.S. Coast Guard Experimenting With Mines for the Destruction of Icebergs
US Coast Guard Experimenting With Mines For The Destruction of Icebergs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trainee Lifeboat Crews Stay Safe Underwater With The Help Of RNLI Divers
trainee lifeboat crews stay safe underwater with the help of RnLI divers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Pilot Motor Boat Champion
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.19 on the night of the 28th of February, 1957, a message was received from the east pier that a vessel which had just leftthe harbour with a pilot boat in attendance was now sounding her siren and searching the...
A Yacht Club Visits the Walmer Station
LAST December Coxswain Frederick Upton of Walmer gave a talk to the Thames Motor Yacht Club, and at the end of the month a party of over twenty members, with their ladies, visited Deal. They entertained the Mayor and Mayoress and the...
Category: Branches
Valerie and the House-Boat Miranda
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 3rd of July, 1957, the honorary secretary and coxswain saw the fishing boat Valerie in difficulties off Skegness. The Valerie was towing the house-boat Miranda. The life- boat The Cuttle...
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A Fine Northumbrian Rescue.
THE fierce gales which are experienced j on the Northumbrian coast from time to i time cause a large number of casualties, ! and the brave Life-boatmen at Holy i Island have a fine list of...
Launch of Courage on our Coasts
The work of award-winning photographer Nigel Millard is to be showcased in a new book and exhibition for the RNLI. Nigel is a volunteer crew member at Torbay Lifeboat Station and for the last 2 years he has dedicated his professional life to...
Category: Articles
Two Sisters, of Aberystwith and Smack David, of Cardigan
On the 26th October, while it was blowing a heavy gale from the north, with a high sea on, two vessels at anchor in the roadstead hoisted signals of distress. The same valuable life-boat was immediately launched, and went to their assistance...
The 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Louis Marches! of Round Table Wax Stationed at Newhaven In 1977
The 44ft Waveney lifeboat, Louis Marches! of Round Table wax stationed at Newhaven in 1977.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs