LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RNLI's Chief Executive
The RNLI's Chief Executive and Chairman cut the turf to start building works for the Lifeboat College at Poole. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morecambe Opening Ceremony
Over 200 people gathered on the promenade at Morecambe on 11 September 1999 for the official opening of Morecambe lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—On the 15th of August, 1949, an officer of the Irish Army and a priest, who were on holiday, went out from Drogheda in a motor boat. About four in the after- noon the engine broke down, the boat anchored, and the...
Pioneer
Life-boat O.N.803 at Sheerness - At 3.40 p.m. on 22nd February, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized near Minster wartime defence boom.
The life-boati Canadian Pacific slipped her moor...
H.M. Destroyers G51 and H78 (1)
OCTOBER 17TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the morning the coastguard reported that two vessels were ashore off Whitburn.
A moderate breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough...
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1891
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Category: Services
Returning the Compliment
Staff from the RNLI's depot and headquarters gave a helping hand to the Children in Need Appeal on 1 December last year when they made a 'double circumnavigation' of Poole. The D class inflatable stayed firmly ashore, being... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some swim
A Wicklow family brought their yacht across Ireland by canal to the Shannon estuary in June. On the last Saturday of the month, the skipper stopped to erect the mast but drifted onto rocks 1½ miles east of Aughinish. Kilrush’s B class...
Category: Articles
Late on the Aflernoon of August 8 the Needles Coastguard Alerted the Search and Rescue Flight Hms Daedalus That a Boat Was In Difficulties In Totland Bay Isle Of
Late on the aflernocn of August 8, the Needles Coastguard alerted the Search ami Rescue Flight, HMS Daedalus, that a boat was in difficulties in Totland Bay, Isle of Wight. An aircraft was scrambled to go to the scene. However, a helicopter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fraserburgh
A DEPLORABLE accident, which resulted in the loss of two lives, occurred at Fraserburgh, on the 28th April. The Admiralty drifter Eminent, which left Buryhead the previous night, bound for Fraserburgh to be " demobilised," had an...
Category: Articles