LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sir William Hillary Founder of the Rnli and Triple Gold-Medallist Himself Saved More Than 300 People from Drowning
Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLl and triple gold-medallist, himself saved more than 300 people from drowning..
Category: Drawings
Left Top and Bottom: Pat Shares His Water Safety Knowledge With Members of the Public at Portpatrick In August 2003
Left top and bottom: Pat shares his Water Safety knowledge with members of the public at Portpatrick in August 2003. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Adelaide ,of Malahide
The Life-boat on this station went out on the 31stOctober, during a fresh gale from the E., and saved the crew of 5 men of the schooner Adelaide, of Malahide,...
Three Fishing Boats
FISHING BOATS ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA St. Abbs, Berwickshire. On the morning of the 26th August, 1962, a gale warning was issued and the southerly breeze did in fact increase in force.
Three local fishing boats were at sea in...
Anchor-Shot and Grapnel-Shot
ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat, a Dinghy and the Converted Trawler Alessie
HELICOPTER HELPED At 8.30 a.m. on 3151 August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men in a rowing boat about three miles offshore from his look-out were waving frantically to attract attention.
There...
The 70Ft Clyde Class Grace Paterson Ritchie
The 70ft Clyde class Grace Paterson Ritchie, pictured shortly after building in 1965 against a snowy River Clyde backdrop. She is now further north as part of the Icelandic Life Saving Association's fleet. (Photo courtesy A. T. Kelly and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mike Mcelhatton of AFC Bournemouth
Mike McElhatton of AFC Bournemouth prepares to draw the first prize ticket from the boot of the Volvo outside the RNLI's Poote HQ.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boot Launches on Service During the Months December 1971 January and February 1972
Aldeburgh, Suffolk Angle, Pembrokeshire Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Baltimore, Co. Cork Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Bembridge, Isle of Wight Berwick-upon-Tweed,...
Category: Services
A Tribute from the Mercantile Marine
EXTRACT PROM A LETTER FROM THE IMPERIAL MERCHANT SERVICE GUILD.
15th June, 1916.
To The Secretary, Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
DEAR SIR, I have the pleasure to...
Category: Donations