LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (2)
STAITHES, YoBxsmM.—The sudden rising of the sea, on the 17th April, rendered it dangerous for some of the fishing cobles to return to the shore.
The Life-boat Jonathan Stott was therefora launched at about 1.15 P.M. and...
A Gallant Young Corporal
THE Institution has sent a framed letter of thanks and £1 to Corporal David Aitken, a 15-year-old member of the Glasgow Jewish Lads' Brigade Cadets, for bravely helping to save a woman who fell into the Tweed last...
Category: Articles
In June a Spanish Life-Boat Delegation, Led By the Conde De Toreno, President of the Spanish Red Cross Society, Visited England. Here the Party Is Pictured at Life-Boat House, London, With (Left T
In June a Spanish life-boat delegation, led by the Conde de Toreno, president of the Spanish Red Cross Society, visited England. Here the party is pictured at Life-boat House, London, with (left to right) Captain Nigel Dixon, Secretary of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Littleover and Ilkeston Branches
Boxing clever: Les Brunskill of Alvaston, Derby, makes bird boxes and sells them for £2.50 each, all of which goes to the RNLI. He has made no fewer than 185 of them so far, at a total value of £462.50. He charges nothing for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rupert Lifeboat Collector Par Excellence: Captain and Mrs F Wilson's African Grey Parrot Does His Trick of Duty at Their Front Gate Being a Talkative Bird He Is Very Persu
Rupert, lifeboat collector par excellence: Captain and Mrs F. Wilson's African grey parrot does his trick of duty at their front gate. Being a talkative bird, he is very persuasive and in just three weeks last August, collected more than... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Little Old Lady
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...
A Dinghy (13)
Hastings, Sussex - At 4.32 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the police informed the honorary secretary that three bathers were in difficulties off Fairlight Cove. The IRB was launched at 4.35 and proceeded to the position indicated where she found...
Busiest year on record
The number of annual lifeboat launches has topped 9,000 for the first time in RNLI history. Statistics for 2009 show that volunteer crews launched 9,223 times, rescuing 8,235 people. The charity’s lifeguards also had their busiest year ever,...
Category: Articles
"Life-Boat Saturday" Help! Help!
ERE long around our island home Tempestuous winds shall blow; Ships safe to-day, far, far away May then to pieces go.
Would yon one seaman should perish, On rock or Goodwin Sand, For lack of a "Royal" Life-boat,...
Category: Poetry
Dinah
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.10 on the night of the 26th of July, 1948, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a vessel was signalling for help with a torch one mile to the south-south-east, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was...