LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eemstroom
HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT TAKE FIVE TO HOSPITAL Selsey, Sussex. At 12.34 p.m. on Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the Selsey coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy was very low in the water and in a sinking condition...
Ronleo
Engine failure in gale THE CREW OF Teesmouth lifeboat assembled at the boathouse on the afternoon of Saturday October 20, 1984, after a fishing vessel, Ronleo, had reported that she was in need of assistance, sixand a quarter miles east...
£69,494 from Life-Boat Days In 1940.
Never has there been such a generous response by the public to the appeal of life-boat flag days as in 1940. The number of branches which held flag days was 771, and 475 of them raised larger sums than ever before. The number of people who...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
NUMEROUS demonstrations and collec- tions in connection with the Life-boat Saturday Fund have been arranged and admirably carried out during the past summer. The reports which have come in from all parts of the country indicate that,...
Category: Articles
Holiday shock
When a rip current dragged a pregnant woman out to sea, Wicklow lifeboat volunteers sprang into action – and discovered she was not the only person with her life in danger
Wicklow’s inshore and...
Category: Articles
Walkure
The No. 2 Life-boat at Palling, Hearts of Oak, and the Louisa Heartwell, from Croiner, were launched to the assistance of the ship Walkure, of Hamburg, which stranded on the Haisboro Sands on the 4th December. The vessel, which was a large...
Doubled Up
Eliza Fraser, Victoria Jones and Ella Neame teamed up on the last day of the Swanage regatta to paint stones collected from the seaside and sell them in aid of the RNLI.
John, Eliza's dad, volunteered to double whatever... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A New Life-Boat Film
A YEAR ago the Institution had a sound film made which showed the building of a motor life-boat, from the felling of teak and mahogany logs in Burma and Honduras up to the arrival of the completed boat at her...
Category: Articles
Jean & Barbara
COBLE ESCORTED ASHORE AFTER DRIFTING Filey, Yorkshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that because of the deteriorating weather conditions he thought it advisable to launch the...
Hasselo
Signals of distress from the Middle Lightship were observed on the morning of the 19th January. The same Life-boat was launched and proceeded to a schooner which was found to be sunk with the lower masts' heads out of water. As no one...