LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Brighton IRB Being Launched In a Choppy Sea
The Brighton IRB being launched in a choppy sea. During the first six months of this year IRBs were launched 225 times compared with 112 for the same period last year.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three and a Half Years of War.
In three and a half years of war our life-boats have rescued 5100 lives, and our life-boatmen have won 177 medals for gallantry. Twenty-eight lives have been rescued every week since the war began..
Category: Articles
Cairnduna
In the forenoon of the 9th March, the schooner Cairnduna, of Thurso, bound from Dundee to Sunder- land, was driven ashore on the strand below Bamborough Castle, about five miles from the Life-boat Station at North Sim- derland. The Life-boat...
Mr. H. M. Smardon, M.B.E., of Torbay
MR. HENRY MADICK SMARDON, of Torbay, who died at Brixham on the 28th of October of last year, was a noted figure in the town, where he was affectionately known as H.M.S. Brixham. He was a retired school- master and a man of many...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
Category: Services
The Four Gallantry Awardees
The four Gallantry Awardees met HRH Prince Charles the day before the APA. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Douglas, Isle of Man - Ireland Division
Douglas, home of Sir William Hillary the founder of the RNLI, was one of the earliest places in the British Isles to be provided with a lifeboat. Hillary witnessed many shipwrecks there and established the lifeboat stations, himself helping... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
James Dougal Has Been Assistant Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic of Eyemouth
James Dougal has been assistant second coxswain/ assistant mechanic of Eyemouth lifeboat since 1991. He joined the crew in 1972 and served as assistant mechanic from 1982 until taking up his present position.
A collective... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bridlington Life-Boat Escorting a Local Fishing Boat Into the Harbour on 23rd January, 1967
The Bridlington life-boat escorting a local fishing boat into the harbour on 23rd January, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs