LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New £70,000 Life-Boat
With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
On the 21st April the coastguard telephoned that three small fishing boats were sheltering behind the North Pier. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing with a rough sea, and it was raining. As the wind was increasing rapidly, it was decided to...
A Rowing Boat (3)
JUNE 2ND. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK.
At about 4.10 P.M. a message came that a rowing boat with two persons on board wasin difficulties in Youghal Bay. The wind was due east and increasing, with a ground swell, and the boat was...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.
CHAS. G. TURNER, C.B., Mr. CHAS. DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of the...
Category: Meetings
Burry Port
Burry Port crew member Ryan Griffiths (right) had a hard time convincing fellow crew member Jeremy Williams that they had shared the workload equally after the crew had taken part in a low-water exercise along the very muddy Welsh coast. {In... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Michalis Poutous
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—On the night of the 23rd December the Greek steamer Michalis Poutous, of Piraeus, bound light from Rouen to Barry Dock, ran on to the rocks in Bridgwater bay, near Burnham. She...
Skills for summer
RNLI lifeguards have had another busy Summer on the beaches. However, it’s not just on patrol that they prove their worth – as the Hit the surf and Beach to city programmes show.
Hit the surf teaches children aged 8–12 a...
Category: Articles
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
Susan Vittery
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.10 in the afternoon of the 2nd of September, 1949, the Formby coastguard reported that there appeared to be a three- masted schooner on the revetment, abreast of C.13 buoy River...