LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Snapper
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At about noon on the 22nd January, 1939, information was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in diffi-culties off Boscombe Pier. A S...
Cachalot and Wombat and Mako
Two calls ON THE MORNING of Friday August 13, 1982, a message came at 1148 from Thames Coastguard informing Aideburgh lifeboat station of a fishing vessel, Cachalot, which had broken down; she was anchored between Orfordness and Weir Point...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE The cover for the first issue of THE LIFEBOAT for 1974—the RNLI's 150th yearis reproduced from an old coloured lantern slide believed to have formed part of 'the first advertising campaign for RNLI on magic lantern...
Category: Drawings
Fishing Boats (1)
BridUngton, Yorkshire.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 27th of November, 1953, during bad weather, the coast- guard assembled the coastguard shore life-saving team to man the piers in case any fishing boat entering the harbour needed help....
Ceremonies
Naming and dedication Ceremonies Relief Fleet- Arun class Duke of Atholl The City Chambers at Dundee became the scene of great activity on Saturday 12 May 1990 when the Duke of Atholl's private army disembarked from buses and tuned their...
Category: Inaugurations
An Aeroplane (181)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - NEWQUAY, AND ST.
IVES, CORNWALL. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and the Newquay motor life-boat put out. While she was out information was received that another British aeroplane was...
Cover Picture
The bottle of champagne falls: Ralph and Joy Swann, Ramsgate's new 44' Waveney lifeboat, was named by HRH The Duchess of Kent on Thursday, September 23, 1976. Hampshire Rose, Walmer's 37' 6" Rother lifeboat, with Sir... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Human Muscle and Motor Power
THE advantages of the Motor Life-boat over the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat are obvious in speed, in range oi action, in power to travel in the face of a gale, and, above all, in manoeuvring power at the critical moments when the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Gem and Progress
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 8.25 on the morning- of the 30th of October, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat three quarters of a mile north of Whitby was burning flares.
Five minutes later the no. 1 life-boat...
Golf Competition
IN 1933, for the third tune, an appeal was made to golf clubs to hold a com- petition in aid of the life-boat service.
In 1931 it was made to the principal clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex; in 1932 to the principal clubs in...
Category: Articles