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A Boat

Date: Autumn 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 474

Two calls A RED FLARE was sighted off shore by the honorary secretary of Withernsea lifeboat station and a shore helper at 2025 on Sunday July 27, 1980. Maroons were fired and while the two men were preparing the D class inflatable lifeboat...

Below: the Coastguard's Sumburgh -Based Bristow

Date: Winter 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 539

Below: The Coastguard's Sumburgh -based Bristow Sikorsky S-61N Rescue Oscar Charlie on exercise with Lerwick's Arun class Soldian - photo Kieran Murray.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Bookshelf

Date: Autumn 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 554

Britain's Historic Coast By Alison Gale Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd ISBN: 0-7524-1456-9 Price: £19.99 . _ _ H Alison Gale takes a trip through time that explains how human activity has both exploited and left its mark upon...

Category: Articles

Launching By Horses

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Launching By Horses. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Services by Shore-boats

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

Services by Shore-boats.

Category: Services

Five Years and Six Months of War

Date: March 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 19

Since the war began our life-boats have rescued 6,272 lives. That is more lives rescued in five years and six months of war than in the last seventeen years of peace..

Category: Articles

The Thirtieth Arun Snolda (1985)

Date: Autumn 1990

Volume: 52

Issue: 514

The thirtieth Arun, Snolda (1985), looks identical to modern boats, but she is the only steel boat in the class. Steel construction proved too expensive.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Run for His Money

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

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

TOUCH AND GO

Date: 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 616 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2016

When a cargo ship lost power and started drifting towards danger, two lifeboat crews headed out on a rescue that would test their endurance to the limit ‘It’s an unusual coincidence,' says Padstow Mechanic Mike England, ‘that for the...

Category: Articles

Velocity, Frier and Bonne Mere

Date: February 1899

Volume: 17

Issue: 191

SWANAGE AND POOLE.—The Life-boats at these well-known places on the south coast were instrumental in rendering excellent service to vessels in great distress during the severe gales of November last. On the 23rd of that month the former boat...