LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Araxian
Man overboard A large crowd gathered at Filey on 2 July 2001 for the naming ceremony of the station's new D class lifeboat Rotary District 1120. They got rather more than they expected, however, when a full-scale rescue took place in...
Wardour
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—On the morn- ing of the 24th of August, 1949, the tide and weather being suitable, the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was beached at seven o'clock for cleaning and paintingher bottom. At 9.40 the Kilchoman...
Laura Belle
The Coast- guard -watchman observed flares from a vessel at 3.30 A.M. on the llth March about a quarter of a mile to the south- ward. He at once informed the Cox- swain of the Life-boat and it was decided to launch the No. 1 Bolton. There...
Ice Formations Around Margate Slipway In January
Ice Formations Around Margate Slipway In January. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituary
With deep regret we announce the following deaths: April Dr Robert Rees Prytherch, a lifelong supporter of the RNLI who had been honorary medical adviser at Criccieth since 1956 and chairman of the station branch for many years. He was...
Category: Obituaries
ONCE TRAINED NEVER FORGOTTEN
You never forget your RNLI training. For our lifeboat crews, the ability to assess a situation and take immediate action is vital. When Isles of Scilly boatman and retired lifeboat Coxswain Andy Howells saw a boat capsize during a wildlife...
Category: Articles
Lucy
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
Langness
NOVEMBER 10TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. A gale from the east had been blowing all through November 9th, and on the 10th it rose to hurricane force, with a very heavy sea running and the air thick with spindrift. Many ships had taken...
Massive mission
When a 180m-long cargo vessel beached on a sandbank on 3 January, some crew members were trapped inside while others prepared to abandon ship. What happened next called on the skill and courage of four lifeboat...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Kirkcudbright.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of January, 1957, a message was received from the police that two men had put out in a small dinghy to go duck-shooting on the morning of the day before and had not returned....