LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Crews
"MAN the Life-boat!" has become a household -word, and it may possibly prove of some interest to those who, have not had the opportunity of seeing different parts of the coast of England, or of studying the different types of the...
Category: Articles
Feature Tamar Tales
As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches. Edinburgh Leith and Granton
EDINBURGH, the capital of Scotland, is situated near the south shore of the Firth of Forth, nearly 400 miles from London. It is sur- rounded on all sides, excepting the north, by lofty hills, the town itself standing on three hills or ridges...
Category: Articles
The Ex-Belgian Defence Vessel Andre Marcel and Plover
OCTOBER 18TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 12.20 in the early morning information was received from the naval control at the pier-head that a barrageballoon- drifter and a barge had been driven ashore on the West Shoebury Sands. A S.W...
Ceremonies
Fishguard - Trent class Blue Peter VII On 17 June 1995 Fishguard's brand new Elm Trent class lifeboat Blue Peter VII was officially named - and, to judge by the number of young people gathered on the foreshore for the ceremony, it was...
Category: Inaugurations
Catharine
The Hoylake Life-boat was again afloat on service on the 25th September on the occasion of the flat Catharine, of Liver-pool, going ashore about a mile from the Life-boat Station daring a whole gale from the north and a very heavy...
Rnli National Lottery
MARY TAMM, the actress most remembered for her portrayal of Doctor Who's assistant in the long-running BBC serial, drew the RNLI's twenty-fifth national lottery on Monday April 30 at Poole HQ. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a...
Category: Articles
Morning Star
MAN WITH INJURED HAND LANDED Boulmer, Northumberland. The Tynemouth coastguard inquired at 10.32 on the evening of Wednesday the 18th September, 1963, if it was possible to launch the Boulmer life-boat to land an injured man from the 25-ton...
Marthe Roux
The Life-boat Robert and Susan was called out about 6.30 A.M. on the 25th Feb- ruary, to the assistance of the Barque Marthe Boux, of Havre, which had stranded on some dangerous rocks about three-quarters of a mile to the south of Newbiggin;...
The S.S. Ben Rein
On the 25th October the s.s. Ben Rein, of Ramsey, sheltering in Caldey Roads while on passage from Penarth to Milford, began to drag her anchors and signalled for help. A strong S.W. breeze was blow- ing, with a heavy sea, and the weather...