LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Race to the rescue
Our lifesavers usually rescue one or a few people at a time – but in May they were called to over 80 swimmers struggling against a powerful tide …
It was a deceptively calm and sunny day on 26...
Category: Articles
Learning the Ropes
Many people imagine that the average RNLI crew member is a selfless, brave, experienced mariner. Crew members are certainly brave and selfless but, today, volunteers with a professional maritime background are in the...
Category: Articles
Cdr Leslie Hill Answers the Questions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr Anthony Barber on the Rnll's Principal Exhibit An Atlantic 21Ilb (Below) Photograph By C
Cdr Leslie Hill answers the questions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Anthony Barber on the RNLl's principal exhibit, an Atlantic 21ILB (below). - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
The Launch of the Life-Boat
Go forth, thou gallant boat! God speed thee on the main I Not oft, if ever, wilt thou float Thus tranquilly again.
Go I proudly ride the wave— The restless waters sleep; Hereafter thou must breast and brave The fury of the...
Category: Poetry
An Open Salmon Yawl
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1948, the Duncannon police tele- phoned that a small boat was in distress, and the motor life-boat Duke of Con- naught, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...
Category: Services
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1878
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Category: Services
The S.S. Allurity
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—About 4.15 in the morning on the 8th of November, 1950, the S.S. Allurity, of London, a tanker of 813 tons, wirelessed that she had a fire in her engine-room. Shortly after 7.0 the Foreland coastguard reported that...
The Last of the "Malvoisin."
IN Lloyd's List for 4th May appeared the following announcement under " Malvoisin." " Boulogne, May 3.—The Malvoisin, a British ketch plying regularly between London and Calais, was wrecked at 5 a.m. to-day on the shore to...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—On the night of the 20th January the s.s. City of Lahore, belonging to Liverpool, stranded on Kearney Point. The Life-boat John was launched and proceeded to the steamer. The captain requested the boat to stand by, which...
Category: Services