LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New beaches
RNLI lifeguards are heading north this Summer, and will be patrolling beaches in Lincolnshire for the first time. The beaches – in Skegness, Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea – were covered by council-employed lifeguards. The local council will...
Category: Articles
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
WENT TO LIGHTVESSEL Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At n a.m.
on I2th July, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the use of the life-boat to bring ashore a member of the crew of the Coningbeg lightvessel who was ill. It was...
48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
Category: Services
The Last Rigid Inshore Lifeboat In RNLI Service Was the Boston Whaler A513 Sam and Iris Coles, Pictured In Action Inside Poole Harbour
The last rigid inshore lifeboat in RNLI service was the Boston Whaler A513 Sam and Iris Coles, pictured in action inside Poole Harbour. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sponsored Fin (Swimming With Flippers) By Castlereagh Sub-Aqua Club
A sponsored fin (swimming with flippers) by Castlereagh Sub-Aqua club produced £500 for Bangor branch.
John Houston, a member of the club, presented the cheque to Roger Killiner of Bangor lifeboat crew. A further £... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat and Margaret and Dennis
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, the life- boat Tynesider was launched to take out members of the Tynemouth and South Shields ladies' life-boat guilds.
After returning from the trip she...
Golden Way
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 6.6 p.m. on I4th January, 1967, a vessel lying very close to the shore at Murkle was seen to have fired distress flares and rockets.
The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service...
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Provider
In spite of bad weather, the local motor fishing vessel Provider put to sea early on the morning of the 21st November. The sea was very rough, a lot of fresh water was running down the harbour, and the entrance was very dangerous. It was...
Focus on the Hon Secretaries By Ray Kipling
For so many people, the lifeboat service is synonymous with those who risk their lives, putting out to sea to save others. Here, RAY KIPLING, Assistant Director of the RNLI, takes a look at the less glamorous, but equally important role...
Category: Articles