LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Right: Hfth the Duke of Kent Visits Conwy Lifeboat Station
Right: HftH The Duke of Kent visits Conwy lifeboat station and is pictured with some of the crew members, together with station honorary secretary Keith Robinson (far right). - View image in PDF
© Karl Roberts. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Naming at Cowes of Rnlb Sir Max Aitken Ii
ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23 STORNOWAY'S NEW 52FT ARUN LIFEBOAT WHEN PRINCESS ALEXANDRA named the new Stornoway lifeboat on Thursday February 23 it was a doubly historic occasion for, almost 30 years before, her mother the Duchess of Kent,...
Category: Inaugurations
Amy
At 6.20 P.M. on the 25th April the Life-boat Charles Arkcoll was launched in a heavy sea and blinding snowstorm to the assistance of the barge Amy, of London. A moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing, and the barge had lost her top-mast and...
1969: Disaster at Longhope
A close-knit Orkney island remembers the courage and sacrifice of its lifeboat crew who lost their lives 50 years ago
A south-easterly gale had been pounding Scotland’s coast for days, heavy seas forcing the closure of...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Unusual hazard Sir - I was skipper of the yacht Dalriada when she sank in the small hours of 2 July 1988 (Lifeboat Services, Winter issue), and was eventually transferred to the shore from HMS Battleaxe by Coxswain Billy Lennon and the...
Category: Correspondence
Letter
Thank you! This letter is long overdue to express my thanks and admiration to the 'lads and lassies' of the RNLI in Kyle of Lochalsh. On 16 September last year I brought Morgana my Nauttcat 38 alongside the pontoon in Kyle to take on...
Category: Correspondence
The American Yacht China Bird
At 1.18 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a yacht was reported aground on the Sunk sands near the Great Sunk beacon. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a rough sea.
It was two hours after high water. The lifeboat Edian...
All lifeboats great and small
Who could help you find a lifeboat, build a scale model of one or even uncover the adventures of a former lifesaving craft?
There’s one branch of the RNLI whose members are brought together not...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd September, 1869: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
An Aeroplane (27)
AUGUST 11TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 5.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in Pevensey Bay and asked that the life-boat crew should stand by. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....