LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Melinda Muriel (2)
Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...
A Doctor Climbs Aboard the British Empress
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Category: Photographs
Annual Report. 1903
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Thursday, the 5th day of March, 1903, His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Letters
in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat, we reported on the opening of The Lifeboat College in Pooie, Dorset. We described some of the facilities and equipment available on this unique site and talked to some of those who are to benefit...
Category: Correspondence
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A new life-boat on PEAKE'S design has been recently placed at Hauxley by the National Life-boat Institution, in lieu of the one previously stationed there, which was found to be too heavy, and to draw too much...
Category: Articles
Eight Life-Boats Search for An Aeroplane
ON 21st January, 1937, an aeroplane, G—AELT, with two men on board, left Liverpool for Belfast at ten in the morning. She did not arrive. A southerly wind was blowing, varying from a fresh breeze to a strong gale.
The sea...
Category: Services
Surf's up!
With enormous surf breaking violently around them, how could two hypothermic men possibly escape their rocky prison?
Whipsiderry Bay is one of Cornwall’s ‘hidden gems’ that sees surfers catching waves all year round. So it...
Category: Articles
Battling in a boiling torrent
Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test
The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...
Category: Articles