LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Boy Was Landed on the Other Side of the Cove Where There Was a Path (Right)
The boy was landed on the other side of the cove, where there was a path (right), and handed over to waiting police and ambulance men; the lifeboat then returned to the rock base to take off two fire- men who had been helping the youth and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Redcar - Atlantic 21 Leicester Challenge
Mrs Sheila Harrison, honorary secretary of the Leicester branch, names Redcar's Atlantic 21 Leicester Challenge. (Photo Ron Sutheran). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Today's Lifeboatwomen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 30 May 1990, show that during 1990: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 785 times (an average of some 5 launches a day) More than 215 lives were saved (an average of 1.5 people rescued each...
Category: Articles
The Screw Flat Llysfaen
PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES.—At about 9.30 A.M. on the 6th November, signals of distress were shown by the screw flat Llysfaen, of Liverpool, during a N. gale and a heavy sea. The George Moore Life-boat put off to her assistance, and was...
Ard Carna (3)
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
Naval Motor Launch No.109
OCTOBER 30TH. -THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A naval motor launch, No. 109, had struck a mine and had sunk. Six survivors had been picked up by another launch ; and nothing could be found of the others.- Permanent paid crew....
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor MR. WILLIAM JAMES has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help he has given to the life-boat service for forty-three years as honorary secretary of the Runswick...
Category: Awards
The Sailor's Mother
One morning (raw it was and wet— A foggy day in winter time) A woman on the road I met, Not old, though something past her prime: Majestic in her person, tall and straight; And like a Roman matron's was her mien and...
Category: Poetry
A Close-Up Broadside View
A close-up broadside view of the model: note the faithful reproduction of the anchor stowage and of the stanchions and guard chains: it took Mr Turland seven hours to fit just one of the bottle screws. Note also the buo ancy blocks behind... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane's Dinghy
JANUARY 9TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
At about 10 A.M. the Hooton R.A.F. aerodrome asked the coastguard to search the banks with their telescope for signs of a missing aeroplane, which had not returned the previous evening....