LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pinta
The Humber, Yorkshire.—While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn on the 23rd July, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a fresh westerly...
The Right Honourable Edward R G Heath Pc Mbe Mp Was Guest Speaker at the Afternoon Meeting and Also Presented the Awards With Him Seated Are the Duke Atholl Chairman of the Inst
The Right Honourable Edward R. G. Heath, PC MBE MP, was guest speaker at the afternoon meeting and also presented the awards. With him, seated, are the Duke of Atholl, Chairman of the Institution, and Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, Director.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lord Saltoun Mc By His Grace the Duke of Atholl Chairman of the Committee of Management
WITH THE DEATH of Lord Saltoun, the RNLI has lost one of its most devoted supporters. His main interest was not so much in technical matters such as boats and methods of communication, but in the people who worked for the Institution, its...
Category: Obituaries
'A twist of fate'
It’s Saturday 14 June, the day before Father’s Day. A gentle swell is building off Redcar, Cleveland. Two boats, each carrying a father and son, are out on fishing trips. The crew of one vessel will soon owe the other their...
Category: Articles
On the ropes
A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
Category: Articles
Power-Driven Life-Boats
IT may be that the great war that is now raging will be known to posterity as the " Petrol War," from the fact that petrol engines have been employed for warlike purposes to an extent that was never even dreamed of by those who...
Category: Articles
The Lay of the Life-Boat
GENTLEMEN all, are your glasses charged? for I've a toast for the winter weather.
Answer it, then, with a three times three; voice and heart, if you please, together.
It is not a sorrowful theme I...
Category: Poetry
Rescue from Swedish Vessel Near Cliffs
AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 26th cf December, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lerwick, Shetland Isles, life-boat station, Mr. P. Bruce Laurenson, learnt from the coastguard that the Swedish motor vessel Samba was drifting 122 miles...
Category: Services
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1939
" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...
Category: Articles
Open Days Poole Hq and Depot
Poole HQ and Depot JULY 19 TO 21 FOR THREE DAYS IN JULY, the Poole head office and depot buildings opened their doors wide to show RNLI supporters and the public at large exactly how the lifeboat service is run. This was the second time open...
Category: Articles