LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Giusto
In response to signals and a message received by telephone on the 25th October the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 1.30 A.M. and sailed to the Shipwash S*nd.
The barque Giusto, of Trieste, bound from Sundswall for Cape...
Racy Lady
Ashore on the Shingles Visitors to Lymington's boathouse during Lifeboat Stations Open Days on 26 May 1996 were treated to a taste of the real thing when their Atlantic was suddenly called away to a real 'shout', at first to...
The shape of things to come
FCB2 is the RNLI’s experimental lifeboat, which is being developed to replace the Mersey class. As we reported last year, the hull proved inadequate in rough weather. A new hull shape has now been chosen, and the RNLI hopes the first...
Category: Articles
An Open Motor Boat
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an angler, while fishing from the beach at Rossall Point, had seen a light being flashed from an open motor...
Life-Boats Going Up the Thames to Fulham
Life-Boats Going Up The Thames To Fulham. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flying Colours:
Flying colours: the annual service for seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral in October was attended by the RNLI's President, The Duke of Kent. To represent the Institution's lifeboat crews, seven men from Kent and Essex stations were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd June, 1853. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., in the Chair.
Confirmed Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Reported the death, on the...
Category: Committee
The S.S. Durhambrook
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.56 in the morning, on the 19th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground at North Cheek, Robin Hoods Bay. At 6.10 the No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
The...
R.N.L.I. Sends Irbs to Pakistan Disaster
It took the R.N.L.I, just 36 hours to find 20 inshore rescue boats with engines and spares for an airlift from Stansted, Essex, to Dacca to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The two volunteers were Lieutenant David Stogdon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs