LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clio
Shortly after 10 P.M. on the 8th March information I was received that a brigantine was ashore about a mile to the north of the station. The assembly signal was fired and the Life-boat John Burch launched.
On reaching the...
Nil Desperadum
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
The Ro-Ro Ferry Chartres
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Motor Cruiser
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 10.39 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted one and a half miles north of The Mumbles life-boat station. The life-boat William...
Leila
CAUGHT IN HERRING NET Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 10.58 a.m. on nth October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning a red flare a mile and a half from Lowestoft coastguard lookout. There was a fresh...
Windswept swimmer
31 August 2012: Both New Quay lifeboats went to the aid of a swimmer swept out to sea by strong winds and the tide. The inshore crew found the exhausted man 200m from the shore. The two crews then worked together...
Category: Articles
Afternoon: Shoreline Member No I Sir Alec Rose (R) Hands Over to Major-General Ralph Farrant Chairman of the Committee of Management a Rather-Shaped Che
Afternoon: Shoreline member No. I , Sir Alec Rose (r.) hands over to Major-General Ralph Farrant, chairman of the Committee of Management, a Rather-shaped cheque for £101,000, the result of the Shoreline appeal which will go towards the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
Naming and dedication Ceremonies rlOWth - Arun class Hibernia The naming ceremony of the RNLI's new relief 52ft Arun class lifeboat was held on Saturday 16 September at Howth Harbour.
Mrs Maureen Haughey named the new...
Category: Inaugurations
A new life with the RNLI
Whether they’re facing the toughest conditions at sea or giving tireless hours to fundraise, RNLI volunteers show enormous dedication to saving lives at sea. We meet five people who left home in search of a new life – and found the...
Category: Articles