LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zetland, the Oldest Survmg Lifeboat
Zetland, the oldest survmg lifeboat is of the Greathead type and was built in 1800. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medallists Aboard the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Displayed on the Embankment (I to R): Helmsman John Hodder Lyme Regis; Coxswain 'Harry' Jones Hoylake; Coxswain Trevor E
The medallists aboard the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat displayed on The Embankment (I. to r.): Helmsman John Hodder, Lyme Regis; Coxswain 'Harry' Jones, Hoylake; Coxswain Trevor England, Padstow; Coxswain Kenneth Voice,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Steel 70-Foot Life-Boat
A steel life-boat, which is the first of her kind to be built for the Institution, was completed at the yards of Messrs. Yarrow & Co. Ltd. of Scotstoun, Glasgow, in September. She is the first vessel to be built for the RNLI in steel,...
Category: Articles
Floralie (1)
French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.
Although the Society ("...
Category: Articles
Lady Daphne
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
IN GOOD HANDS
When an experienced boater fell into the River Dart after an evening cruise with his wife and young son, it quickly dawned on him he was in grave danger
For Simon Burton, a leisurely family cruise on 24 June turned into a...
Category: Articles
Yvonne, of Cardiff
MAY 4TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 7.55 in the evening the coastguard reported a small boat drifting two miles north of St. David’s Head. A strong northeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor...
Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough
Another old and most valued friend of the Institution, Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough, passed away on 24th January. Miss Swallow had been a Life-boat worker for thirty years, first as Honorary Secretary of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund,...
Category: Obituaries
Harmony, of Bideford
About mid- night on the 29th March a vessel was re- ported on shore on the South Tail, Bideford Bar, wind blowing strong from N.N.W., and a heavy sea on. The Hope life-boat was im- mediately launched, and succeeded in saving the crew of 3...