LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gas Rig
Outbreak of fires At 4.30am on 4 January 2006, the B class Atlantic 21 Falmouth Round Table launched to a 6.7m yacht on fire on the Penryn River, Cornwall. The skipper had been asleep when the fire started but managed to escape through the...
RNLI News
Knighthood for RNLI Chairman The RNLFs chairman became Sir Michael Vernon when he was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's New Year Honours list in recognition of his services to the Institution.
Sir Michael joined the...
Category: Articles
Empire Clara
FEBRUARY 26TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 1.32 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground on the east side of Scroby Sands, but not showing distress signals, and at 2.20 the Gorleston motor lifeboat...
The Ina Lass
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — About 2 P.M., on the 23rd January, a smack was observed far out in the bay evidently endeavouring to make for the roadstead.
The wind at the time was blowing a fresh gale from the S.S.E., with...
Listings
Olive Laura Deare Mrs Olive Deare A naming ceremony for the E class lifeboat at Gravesend station, on the Thames, took place on Saturday, 26 April at the Fort Gardens. The O Ve Laura Deare is the first E class lifeboat to be improved and...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Air Vice Marshal John Tetley, chairman of the RNLI's search and rescue committee, together with other members of the committee drew the winning tickets of the 73rd lifeboat lottery at Poole on 30 April 1996.
Supervising...
Category: Articles
The German Life-Boat Service
IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...
Category: Articles
The Twenty Branches With the Highest Collections, 1929-30
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th Sep- tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, four Scottish, and two...
Category: Branches
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
The pride of the RNLIA dip into the archives of theLifeboat reveals page after page of award-winning RNLI rescues - and the bravery of crew members continues. But how does the RNLI choose those extra-special services that merit an award?A...
Category: Services
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Bronze for selfless braveryOn the same day as the Redcar incident (see page 12] volunteers at Filey too were called upon to save lives.
Particular tidal and weather conditions combined with the local geology to create...