LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Help to the Fighting Services.
The year was notable for the help which the life-boat service, while following its single aim of saving life, was able to give to the fighting services at Dunkirk and in the waters round our coasts.
Nineteen life-boats took...
Category: Articles
Scarborough Lifeboat the 37Ft Oakley Amelia
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, under the command of Coxswain Ian Firman, setting off soon after 1100 on January 26, 1984, to help the Fleetwood trawler Navena, which was making water and listing about nine miles north east of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yarmouth: After Naming Joy and John Wade (Above) the Duke of Kent Went Afloat In the Lifeboat and Is Seen (Below) on the Flying Bridge With Coxswain David Kennett
Yarmouth: After naming Joy and John Wade (above), the Duke of Kent went afloat in the lifeboat and is seen (below) on the flying bridge with Coxswain David Kennett. (Left) Coxswain Kennett and Second Coxswain/ Mechanic Richard Whibley are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Vice-President
COLONEL THE HON. HAROLD ROBSON has been elected a vice-president of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Colonel Robson has been a member of the Committee of Management since 1933. He became vice-chairman of the...
Category: Committee
The Motor Fishing Cobles Betty and Rosemary
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 14th of November.
1956, the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched to escort the motor fishing cobles Betty and Rosemary to harbour in very bad...
List of Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for March, April and May 1998 Aberdeen Arun. Mar 15, May 23 and 31 D Class. Mar 6, 15, 25. 29, Way 4 and 23 Abersoch Atlantic 21, Mar 1. Apr 11, 26, May 1,2. 14, 17. 19 (Twice), 23 (Twice) and 25...
Category: Services
Mia Madre E.
RAMSGATE AND DEAL.—On the 25th August, at about 3 A.M., signals were shown from the Gull Light-ship, and the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, and the Van Kook Life-boat, stationed at Deal, proceeded to the Goodwin...
Kathleen Ann
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a longshore boat, Kath- leen Ann, had anchored about fifty v^.rds from the shore opposite the coastguard look-out....
In September Mr. Edward Heath, Leader of the Conservative Party, Went Out In a R.N.L.I. Inshore Rescue Boat from the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, Glamorganshire
In September Mr. Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative Party, went out in a R.N.L.I, inshore rescue boat from the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, Glamorganshire. The man in the cap is Mr. Peter Gurnell, Outward Bound Sea School... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Atlantis Adventure Makes Fast In the Safety of Baltimore Harbour After Being Given Assistance By the Town's Relief Tyne Class Lifeboat. the 60Ft Sailing Vessel Had
Atlantis Adventure makes fast in the safety of Baltimore Harbour after being given assistance by the town's relief Tyne class lifeboat. The 60ft sailing vessel had run into difficulties south of Fastnet Rock in a rough sea with a swell... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs