LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Silver service at Cleethorpes and Numberhe knew he was in grave danger. It would take the combined skills and courage of Cleethorpes and Number lifeboat crews to rescue Dollard in an exceptional service, winning four medals It is a rare...
Category: Services
Alderney - a Lifeboat Station from Scratch By Edward Wake-Walker
It is not often that a new lifeboat station is opened. This is the story of how the Channel island of Alderney came to provide what has rapidly proved an invaluable addition to the RNLI's operational cover.WHEN YOU HEAR him calmly...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting
and presentation of awards FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, MAY 21A BRIGHT, sunny morning; friends from all parts of Britain and Ireland gathering on the South Bank of the Thames ready for the annual general meeting and presentation of awards in this...
Category: Meetings
Speed, skill, survival
The quick thinking and skill of two honeymooners and RNLI lifeguards were the difference between life and death for a jogger who went into cardiac arrest on a Cornish beach
Mawgan Porth Beach...
Category: Articles
Run for His Money
Run for his money Clive Morris, Port Talbot crew member pictured wearing an RNLI tee-shirt, ran from the RNLI regional office in Cardiff to the lifeboat station at Port Talbot raising £1,250. He was waved off by office staff Vicky,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
MR. GRANT UDEN has achieved the con- siderable feat of telling the story of the life-boat service in a book of less than ninety pages, which yet includes numer- ous photographs of life-boats, a map of life-boat stations, several charts and...
Category: Articles
The Thames Coastguard Rescue Headquarters at Walton-On-Naze Essex Late Last Year Staged a Special Air and Sea Exercise Off Clacton Pier for Visiting Officials Visible I
The Thames Coastguard rescue headquarters at Walton-on-Naze, Essex, late last year staged a special air and sea exercise off Clacton pier for visiting officials. Visible in the picture are the Coastguard helicopter, the Harwich life-boat,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (40)
JULY 14TH. SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At about 2.22 A.M. the Brighton coast-watching sea scout reported an aero- plane down in the sea two miles south of Saltdean. The sea was smooth, with light north-easterly airs. The motor life-boat Rosa...
An Aeroplane (45)
APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.
a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...
Salcombe Life-Boat Disaster
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call {or me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark;...
Category: Articles