LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
For Cuddles Was Their New 70kg Rescue Dummy
A trio of new arrivals at Burnham-on- Sea lifeboat station, Somerset, have been welcomed with open arms.
Joining a crew can be a nervewracking experience but it didn’t take long for Cuddles to settle in last year,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
All hands!
Thousands of volunteers and hundreds of staff are needed to provide back-up to the RNLI’s lifesavers – so how does the charity find the right people for the job?
‘The Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches...
Category: Articles
YOUR CHANCE TO SAVE LIVES
The RNLI is setting up a new fundraising network in Glasgow and we need your support. This is your chance to help Scotland’s 46 RNLI lifeboat stations, 7 lifeguard patrols, the Flood Rescue Team and vital community safety work – all without...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.55 a.m. on 2Oth March, 1966, a small rowing boat with two people on board was reported in difficulties with a broken oar one mile east of Tynemouth. At 11.59 the IRB launched in a fresh gusting to strong...
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Whitehills, Banffshire. At 2.24 p.m.
on 28th November, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported that a man had fallen over the cliff at Troup Head and could be in the sea. The...
The Sailing Boat Shira
Falmouth, Cornwall. — About 6.45 in the evening, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the police reported that a man had been found unconscious at St. Just. When he recovered he had told them a com- panion was adrift in the sailing boat Shira. At...
A Rowing Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—In the early afternoon of the 19th of Septem- ber, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a man had gone out in a rowing boat, to tow in a dinghy which had blown out to sea, was unable to make headway and...
Elsie
Workington, Cumberland. — At 7.50 in the evening of the 21st of June, 1952, a report was received through the coastguard that a boat was in dis- tress about three miles north-east of Whitehaven, and at 8.15 the life-boat N.T. was launched....
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Galway Bay. At 4 p.m. on i3th November, 1965, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Inishmaan island to the mainland for hospital treatment, as no other suitable boat was available. The...
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Galway Bay - At 4.10 a.m. on 6th November, 1968, it was learnt that there was a seriously ill man on Inishmaan island. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick, with a doctor on board, slipped her moorings at 5.10. There was a strong east north...