LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rye Memorial
THE memorial to the seventeen Life- boatmen of Rye Harbour—who lost their lives on 15& November, 1928, when the Life-boat, returning from service in a whole gale, capsized as she appeared to be coming into the harbour-mouth with a...
Category: Articles
Bridlington Memorial Service
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was published of the Memorial Service at Bridlington for the men who lost their lives on 10th February, 1871, when an unusually severe gale burst on the north-east coast of England, and at...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SBLSEY, SUSSEX.—At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she...
Category: Services
Old England
ENGRAVED CRYSTAL GLASS LIFE BOAT TANKARDS Profiles of some of RNLI's offshore fleet, strikingly engraved on haff or one pint Crystal Glass Tankards. Order individually or as sets, selecting the craft of your choice from the illustrations...
Category: Advertisement
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (3)
Launches 27. Lives Rescued 5.
APRIL 9TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 1.22 in the morning the coastguard reported that the 7,000-ton S.S. Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward...
Category: Services
Flora, of Poole
The small surf Life-boat on this station, the Duff, went off on the 16th January, 1871, to the brig Flora, of Poole, which had parted her anchors and gone on the beach during a strong gale from the South. Proceeding through a heavy surf to...
The Speedboat Hot Banana
The speedboat Hot Banana lived up to her name on 6 July when a fire, believed to have started in the outboard engine, spread to the fuel tank and caused a major explosion.
The boat burst into flames at the entrance to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Selling Like Hot Cakes
Schoolgirl Robynne Stenner cooked up a novel way of helping the lifeboats. Ten-year-old Robynne, together with her family, helped the Midsomer and Radstock branch to man the stall at the Bath and West show in May.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From Left to Right: Mr. John Lodge, Tamasine, Mrs. Pam Bull, Mr. John Bull, Coxswain Charles Bolingbroke and Mr. Harry Platt.
From left to right: Mr. - View image in PDF
John Lodge, Tamasine, Mrs. Pam Bull, Mr. John Bull, Coxswain Charles Bolingbroke and Mr. - View image in PDF
Harry Platt.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Cardiganbrook
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 5.24 p.m. on I3th August, 1965, news came that the S.S. Cardiganbrook had radioed for a doctor to meet her off Whitby as a man had been injured. The steamer's estimated arrival time at Whitby was 6.20 and at six...