LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
With courage, nothing is impossible
The new RNLI memorial in Poole is a sculptural celebration of humanity at its best. But how did such an inspirational landmark come into being?
On a corner plot by a busy road, a metallic structure glints in the sunlight....
Category: Articles
(Above) Mrs Watts Christens the Lifeboat, Beatrice Dorothy
(Above) Mrs Watts christens the lifeboat, Beatrice Dorothy with the traditional bottle of champagne.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
There Must Be Easier Ways of Raising Money! Firemen Hose Down Players
There must be easier ways of raising money! Firemen hose down players after a game of football in mud, organised annually in Eastney Lake, Portsmouth, by Locks Sailing Club in support of the lifeboats.
A hard-earned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kite-surfers
Kite-surfers hit by sudden squall Members of the Littlehampton inshore lifeboat crew were called into action in September 2003 when a group of kitesurfers were suddenly swept across the beach and out to sea by strong offshore windsThe alarm...
Bass, Alto and Vivendi
Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
The Princess Elizabeth and Jersey Life-Boatmen
On her visit to Jersey in June, 1949.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
Pass them on...
The letters regarding 'passing on' THE LIFEBOAT interested me as I too have done this for a number of years, taking the journal to our local doctors' surgery and, more recently, sending them on a...
Category: Correspondence
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1957, an urgent call was received from a doctor that there were two very sick women on Tory Island. At 12.30 the life-boat W. M. Tilson put out in a heavy swell. The...
Welcome
Earlier this year, Hoylake launch volunteer Tracy Davies – pictured on the front page – became the first woman to qualify as an operator of the Shannon class lifeboat’s launch and recovery vehicle. Now she’s on call, ready to send the...
Category: Articles
Fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).
fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs