LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Prince of Wales, Gravesend, Crew Rowing Down Woolwich Reach In the 5Th RNLI Annual Sponsored Marathon Row, Gravesend to Greenwich and Back, August 18,
The Prince of Wales, Gravesend, crew rowing down Woolwich Reach in the 5th RNLI annual sponsored marathon row, Gravesend to Greenwich and back, August 18, 1974. It all started with Eric Lupton's idea in 1970. Twelve boats rowed from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Darts Debut
Dart, the RNLI’s newest lifeboat station, had its first shout on 24 November 2007.
Relief D class lifeboat Bob Savage and her crew were called out to recover a young man who had been thrown from his speedboat after hitting...
Category: Articles
A Seabat
Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.15 p.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a seabat had capsized five to six hundred yards off the Clock tower.
The boy on board was unable to right her. The...
Raylight
Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...
Bridlington's Mersey Class 1 Lifeboat Peggy and Alex Caird
Lightning strike Bridlington's Mersey class 1 ifeboat Peggy and Alex Caird, alerted in the service above, is pictured in action later, on 27 June 1989, when she was called to the aid of a Whitbyregistered coble. The vessel had been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gloaming, Miseltoe and Victory
On the 2nd January, while the fishing fleet was at sea, the wind freshened and most of the boats ran for harbour, but three of them—Gloaming, Miseltoe and Victory —which were farther out than the rest, stayed to try and get up their...
Maggie
The Life-boat Henry Vernon was despatched at 8.30 A.M. on the 18th January to the assistance of the brigantine Maggie A., of Poole, which was sighted about that time making for the river. A strong gale was blowing with a very heavy sea, and...
Some of the 31 Yachts Including Seven French Boats Which Took Part In An Old Gaffers Rally In Guernsey Last August Racing for the Thomas Bucktrout Trophy; (I to R)
Some of the 31 yachts, including seven French boats, which took part in an Old Gaffers rally in Guernsey last August, racing for the Thomas Bucktrout Trophy; (I. to r.) Little Apple, Undine, Skipjack, the winner on handicap, Providence and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sealark
MA Y 22ND . - FERRYSIDE, CAR- MARTHENSHIRE. At 7.57 in the evening the Pembrey coastguard telephoned that a boat was in distress half a mile off shore, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Richard Ashley slipped her moorings at 8.27 and put...
Iron Ships, and the Wreck of the Royal Charter
How many " monster wrecks" has it been our painful duty to chronicle during the past few years! How sad is the reflection that their number appears rather to be on the increase than on the decline! During the present year alone...
Category: Articles