LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
60 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1935 Usually this column illustrates how much the world of lifeboats has changed. Occasionally, however, in the pages of a slightly yellowing journal are words which stand out as being as true today as the...
Category: Articles
Nautical star
TV presenter, writer and adventurer Ben Fogle immersed himself in the RNLI’s past and present during his latest on-screen project …
It’s a crisp, cold January morning off the south Devon coast,...
Category: Articles
Token of Thanks - Brighton Lifeboat Helmsman. Richard Pearce. Presents John Mccarthy
Token of thanks - Brighton lifeboat helmsman. Richard Pearce. presents John McCarthy with an honorary Ofkhort membership with thanks for all his work on the new RNLI video.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat and a Dinghy
Two calls NEWTON AUXILIARY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Craster lifeboat station at 1100 on Saturday May 1 that three men had moored their fishing boat at Newton Haven, a few miles to the north of Craster, and, trying to row...
Frances
At about 6 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a moderate N.E. gale, a telephone message was received reporting that a dismasted schooner was in distress off Trevose Head. The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey, in tow of the tug...
A Launching Accident
ON August 16th, a Centenary Demon- stration was to be held at Whitby, the Motor Life-boat and one of the Pulling and Sailing Life-boats to be launched, and an exhibition of Life-boat models to be held in the Life-boat House, but it was...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Lottery
The winter 2005 Lifeboat Lottery raised almost £750,000 for the RNLI - thank you! Once again, the quarterly Lifeboat Lottery has broken all records, bringing 2005's total Lottery income to an extraordinary...
Category: Articles
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 26th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over a cliff near St. David's Head. The life-boat Civil Service No.
6 was launched at 10.15 in...
News
Man overboard! This is the cry no seagoer wants to hear but how much worse would it be to know that, as you slipped and fell into the water, no one knew you had gone? The lone fisherman or yachtsman has always been in grave danger if they...
Category: Articles
Navarre
Wick, Caithness-shire. — At about 11.20 P.M. on the 2nd September, 1939, information was received from the coastguard that the trawler Navarre, of Grimsby, was ashore about five miles south of Duncansby Head. A fresh southerly wind was...