LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vital Statistics
RNLI lifeguards are now on duty in Norfolk and Pembrokeshire. Liz Cook reports on the charity’s drive to put life first on ever more beaches
2007was a breakthrough year for the RNLI. Its lifeguarding service, already...
Category: Articles
Nerves of steel
In a nail-biting service, Donaghadee lifeboat crew battled to save three lives. Would the Coxswain keep cool and reach the sailors in time?
Rudely awoken at 2.15am on 13 September 2009, the County Down crew sprang into...
Category: Articles
Two Centenary Life-Boat Bazaars
THE Centenary celebrations concluded, just before the Institution reached its 101st birthday, with two Bazaars, one in Birmingham and the other in London.
The Birmingham Bazaar, which was called the Life-boat International...
Category: Articles
Seaway Endeavour
Nine rescued from ketch ashore on sands near Chichester Bar A difficult service which led to the rescue of nine people from a yacht aground on the East Pole Sands, just outside Chichester Harbour, has led to the chairman of the RNLI sending...
Lifejackets for lifesavers
Four years in the making, the RNLI’s new lifejackets are a milestone in maritime innovation
A lifejacket is the one item of personal protective equipment (PPE) that our crews must wear: their...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Ramsgate remembered Reading Ken Baker's letter in the Spring issue reminded me that I also had reason to be grateful to the Ramsgate lifeboat.
I also had the same experience as he but was taken aboard a small Dutch...
Category: Correspondence
Kieran Cotter Has Been Coxswain of Baltimore Lifeboat
Kieran Cotter has been coxswain of Baltimore lifeboat since 1989, having first joined the crew in 1975.
He was awarded a Bronze Medal in 1991 in recognition of his determination, skill and fine seamanship when the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gertie
DECEMBER 8TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the military lookout post at Greenore Point that rockets and flares had been seen, and at 6.35 A.M. the motor lift-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...
July (1)
CLONTARF, Co. DUBLIN. On the evening of the 2nd of June, 1945, a sailing boat from the Clontarf Boat Club capsized north of North Bull. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. Four sea scouts,...
Category: Services
Hondsrug
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 2.27 in the afternoon, on the 18th of December, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard reported that a vessel at anchor off Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, was flying a signal for...