LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Boats
Wading neck high TWO SMALL BOATS trying to enter Cullercoats Bay were seen at 1645 on Saturday April 14, 1979, by ILB Crew Member Christopher Blackman, aged 19, and his 16-year-old friend Jeffrey Storey.
It was a fine day...
(Above) 'It's a Bit Big Mum!'
(Above) 'It's a bit big Mum!' The competition to dress up in lifeboatman's gear is always popular - even if the stores can't supply quite the right size.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cornish Open-Air Service
AN open-air service was held in Newlyn Harbour on the 26th of September, 1954. The Penlee life-boat W. & S.
was tied up in the harbour and it was from the deck of the life-boat that the Hon. Greville Howard, M.P., a...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Model effort Gordon Davies, of Waunwen, Swansea, a distant relation of William Gammon, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales, lost on service 40 years ago, has recently completed a labour of love in his memory, a 12th scale...
Category: Articles
November
Launches 49 Lives rescued 31 NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At 8.33 in the morning the Hoylake coastguard reported that the naval authorities wanted a life-boat to go out and stand by a vessel high and dry on the...
Category: Services
Andy Keeling (Right) Bestows the Name on the Atlantic 75 Rotoract
Andy Keeling (right) bestows the name on the Atlantic 75 Rotoract /by pouring the traditional champagne over her bows.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fundraising
'RNLI day' reader offer National Boat Shows Ltd (NBS) has supported the RNLI for more than 25 years, donating free stand space and berths at both the London and Southampton International Boat Shows. This has enabled the RNLI to build...
Category: Articles
At Yeovilton Air Day
At Yeovilton Air Day last August, John King (r) chairman of Yeovil branch, put on display the working scale model which he had made himself of Poole's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Augustine Courtauld. The model, used for fund raising, had that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Board the Humber Life-Boat
Left to right : Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan, Admiral Sir William Slayter; ex-Coxswain Robert Cross. - View image in PDF
(see page 487). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sena Sioria and Whisky Mac
Six survivors snatched from yacht in Force 9 gale and heavy seas A service to a 50ft yacht by St Peter Port's Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold in atrocious weather conditions resulted in media headlines throughout the country - and...