LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left) to Welcome Home Salcombe's 47Ft Watson Lifeboat the Baltic Exchange
(Left) To welcome home Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, after her capsize in 1983 and complete survey and overhaul which followed, piper Gordon McCormack, landlord of The Shipwright's Arms, boarded the station'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Diagrams to Illustrate the Use of the Lights Carried By Vessels at Sea
And the manner in which they indicate to the vessel which sees them the position and 1 description of the vessel that carries them.
When both Red and Green Lights are seen: A. sees a red and green light ahead ;—A, knows...
Category: Articles
The Royal Family and the Life-Boat Service
A design by Miss Margaret L Hodgson for the Institution's Coronation Number (See page 523). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Surfboard
Surfer saved RNLI lifeguards battled adverse conditions on 3 July 2005 to save the life of a surfer at Tolcarne Bay in Cornwall. He had severe head injuries from having been repeatedly washed onto the rocks. Lifeguard Richie Mullin dived...
Prize Winning Essay
Miss GILLIAN ELLIOTT, of Palsgrave County Modern School, Scarborough, Yorkshire, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution. The competition was open to boys and girls up...
Category: Articles
Ruffian
Swim to yacht A YACHT AGROUND on rocks in the vicinity of Beckermet, about six miles south of St Bees, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Bees lifeboat station by Liverpool Coastguard at 0400 on Sunday August 29, 1982. It was an...
General Council of the Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, and H.R.H. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, attend the First Meeting.
THE first meeting of the General Council of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild was held on 23rd November last at Hampden...
Category: Meetings
Portpatrick January 8 1988:
PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (1)
On the 4th March the morning was comparatively fine, and all the boats started for the fishing-grounds at about 6 o'clock. At about 10, however, a gale from S.E. suddenly rose accompanied by a heavy sea, compelling them to abandontheir...
None (1)
Entire station takes part in long search for missing girl It is unusual for a lifeboat station to be awarded a Thanks of the Institution on Vellum, but this was the only way in which the dedication of almost the entire station could be...