LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Lifeboat crew help in dinghy tragedy Arranmore Ireland Division Arranmore lifeboat station has received a letter congratulating everyone involved for their conduct in a tragic incident on 29 July 1989 in which four young people lost their...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 November 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,390 times (an average of nearly 14 launches a day) 1,264 lives were saved (an average of four a day) Some...
Category: Articles
RNLIs Busiest Lifeboat Station of All, Tower,
RNLIs Busiest Lifeboat Station Of All, Tower. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ceremonies
Saturday 16 October 1993 saw the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Mersey class Girvan lifeboat Silvia Burrell, a truly remarkable occasion for the lifeboat community of Girvan, as well as the famous Burrell family. Around...
Category: Inaugurations
Royal Humane Society Awards for Cromer
THE Royal Humane Society has pre- sented its Testimonial on Parchment and Resuscitation Certificate to Robert Charles Davis, the bowman of the Cromer life-boat, and its Resuscitation Certificate to Coxswain Henry Thomas Davis for the rescue...
Category: Awards
Kurt Arlt and Petrel
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.36 on the morning of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the south- east Girdler buoy between the motor vessel Kurt Arlt,...
Several Fishing Boats
A little before nightfall on the 29th September, several fishing- boats belonging to this place were over- taken by a heavy gale of wind. They were seen from the shore making for Craigenrow Bay, ten miles east of Buckie, where they took...
(Right) Coxswain John Collins Baltimore
(right) Coxswain John Collins, Baltimore. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ewen Solon, Known to Millions of Viewers As Lucas In the BBC TV Maigret Series, Plays the Part of the Coxswain In the British Iron and Steel Federation's Film Against the Tide
Ewen Solon, Known to Millions of Viewers As Lucas In the BBC TV Maigret Series, Plays the Part of the Coxswain In the British Iron and Steel Federation's Film Against the Tide. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Trapped by the tide
Among the new lifeboats that were in action (listed in Launches, left) over the Autumn and Winter was Newquay’s D class lifeboat, Enid Mary. Her crew faced a tricky rescue in the surf when a group of students were cut off by...
Category: Articles