LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI In Action
From cliffs to islands, beaches to rivers, this selection of rescues demonstrates the depth of skill and nerve demanded of RNLI lifeboat crews and lifeguards - and that you can never predict where and when you may need their helpFirst aid...
Category: Articles
Around the Coast
Barrow branch has set itself the target of raising £26,000, the estimated cost of reengining and refitting its lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson, Herbert Leigh. The halfway mark, £13,000, was passed last...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the First Six Months of 1873
FOR many years past we have made a synopsis of the Home Wreck Register and Chart of the preceding twelve months, and we propose to follow, on the present occasion, the same course in reference to I the important and national document : which...
Category: Articles
Two Brave Boys. Award of Vellums at Worthing
THE Institution's Thanks inscribed on Vellum have been presented to two boys of Worthing, Eric Mundell and Stanley A. Darkin, both aged fifteen, for rescuing two lives from shipwreck at great risk to themselves. On the morning of 2nd...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (17)
Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty - At 10.52 a.m. on 8th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy and a boy were missing from Portmahamack. The lifeboat Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will slipped her moorings at 11.24...
The Prototype 47Ft Tyne Fast Slipway Lifeboat City of London
The prototype 47ft Tyne fast slipway lifeboat City of London (1) and the relief 33ft Brede lifeboat to be named Merchant Navy heading out through Poole Harbour at the start of their passage to Gothenburg where they were demonstrated at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Air Cases
Air cases of the 4I-feet Watson motor life-boat stationed at Shoreham Harbour. This type has 145 of these cases.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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...
Agm (From Page 15)
AGM (/row page 15) At this point four Scouts, representing Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, walked down the centre aisle and up on to the platform to present the Duke with a very large cheque— large in every way, for it...
Category: Meetings
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Sep 24,25, Oct25,Dec 12,13,26 D-536:Sep 9,24,25,30, Dec 12,l3,24,26(x2) ABERDOVEY B-758:Sep 2,Oct 3 ABERSOCH B-790:Sep2,3,13 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Sep 9,17,27,Oct 3,16,27, Nov 13,Dec21 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28):Oct 9...
Category: Services