LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welcome
Some stories hit you right in the heart
From page 16 of this issue, we tell one of those stories. Stranded in a February sea after their kayak flooded, it was up to 13-year-old Joe to help get his dad to safety. Thinking...
Category: Articles
First wave
It was 4 March 1824, an average Thursday lunchtime. Bishopsgate’s trendy London Tavern, renowned for its ‘dinners, wines and turtle’, was about to make lifesaving history …
The industrial...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boats? That's a Cause I Always Help
The Life-Boats ? That's A Cause I Always Help. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lifeboat College Opens In July 2004 - Artist's Impression
The Lifeboat College opens in July 2004 - artist's impression. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Award-Winning Boathouse And Slipway At Padstow
the award-winning boathouse and slipway at padstow Photo: Dave Nicoll. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Skiff
Droughty Ferry, Angus. At 4.30 a.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the police informed the coxswain that a man who was swimming in the Tay, 300 yards off Broughty Castle, appeared to be in difficulties.
An empty rowing skiff was seen a...
Sirenia (1)
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...
Ard Carna
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
Ceremonies
Relief - Atlantic 75 Rotaract I On a bright November Saturday afternoon nearly 80 Rotaractors with a sprinkling of Rotarians gathered at the Poole Depot Quay for the naming ceremony of a new Atlantic 75 lifeboat, B718.
It...
Category: Inaugurations
Gleneden
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...