LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shifting Sands
Shallow water and unpredictable sandbanks present the East Coast lifeboatman with particular difficulties.
Mike Floyd looks at the situation around The Wash We all have our own mental picture of a lifeboat in action - often...
Category: Articles
Hueee
Alertness and teamwork saves livesSenior Helmsman Gary Barlow was carrying out routine maintenance at the Cleethorpes lifeboat station when he spotted a small fishing vessel to the north side of the Number. On 6 February the fishing boat...
The Life-Boat Calendar, 1928. A Life-Boat Rescue Near Tynemouth Castle
THE LIFE-BOAT CALENDAR, 1928.
A Life-boat Rescue near Tynemouth Castle. (Painted and engraved by W. Elmvs, and published in 1803 by Henry Greathead, builder of the first Life-boat.).
Category: Drawings
People and Places
Gary makes a meal of it! When TV superchef Gary Rhodes was in search of an original culinary challenge for his latest television series, Alderney lifeboat crew cooked up a great idea. Having often enjoyed the hospitality of CROSSMA - the...
Category: Articles
Being Sure on Board
Being sure on board Proceeds from the sale of Sailboard Insurance for the year 1988/89 amounted to £2,014 and a cheque for this amount was presented to Lt Cdr Brian Miles (left), director of the Institution, by Michael Pettifer (right),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seventeen Hours In Gale. Five Were Rescued from Yacht
A SERVICE carried out in a northeasterly gale and lasting 17 hours has led to the unusual award of the collective thanks of the Institution on vellum to the coxswain and crew of the Arranmore life-boat. The service was to the yacht Espanola...
Category: Services
Dispatches
Dispatches RNLI Photographer of the Year 2006 The first ever RNLI Photographer of the Year competition, open to everyone at the charity’s lifeboat stations and lifeguard units, recorded the drama of working in a lifesaving environment using...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
TEN new motor life-boats were named during 1951. Seven were on the Eng- lish coast, at New Brighton (Liverpool), Margate, Scarborough, Lytham, Culler- coats, Newbiggin and Redcar; two on the Scottish coast, at Arbroath and Anstruther; and...
Category: Inaugurations
Book Reviews
• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...
Category: Articles
Jewish
At 9.40 A.M. on the 12th January, during a strong N.E.
gale, a message was received by tele- phone stating that a barge was at anchor near the sea-wall at Sandown.
She had a distress signal hoisted and was...