LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
FLASH FICTION WINNER
Thank you to all 131 entries in the Lifeboat winter flash fiction competition. We were delighted so many of you were inspired to put pen to paper. There was a clear winner – a favourite in the office and with flash fiction writer Eleanor...
Category: Articles
A lifesaving foundation
The RNLI has pledged to provide every all-weather lifeboat crew with a 25-knot lifeboat by 2019. But the links in our supply chain are increasing and the availability of lifeboat building expertise is unpredictable. Our...
Category: Articles
Westward
Crabber swamped in Force 12 windsCoxswain/Mechanic Malcolm MacDonald of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for a service in which the Stornoway lifeboat rescued two men from a crabber which was...
Hunstanton's Atlantic 21Class Lifeboat Spirit of America
Hunstanton's Atlantic 21class lifeboat Spirit of America is capable of some 29 knots. Helmsman Alan Clarke said of her: 'Speed is one of her greatest assets and can be paramount in saving life - but she can only be driven as hard as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
• A new, updated version of Gillian Howie and Gillian Zealand's history of Arbroath's lifeboats May 1982 has been compiled by Alasdair M. Sutherland, himself a crew member. With the aid of photographic illustrations Arbroath Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Books
SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED THE HISTORY OF THE LONGHOPE LIFEBOATS THE STORY OF THE FLEETWOOD LIFEBOATS Written and published by Jeff Morris Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society Jeff Morris is by now well-known for his...
Category: Articles
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(The figures refer to the numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 120. Dartmouth, the Karl of, and Hooper, Miss, 265. [142 Peach, Misses Frances and A Friend, 240. his Tenantry, 159. lope, Rev ...
Category: Donations
Braw Lads
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — During a strong E.N.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the llth December, 1937, anxiety was felt for the safety of the Burnmouth fishing yawls returning to harbour. The new motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was...
Fairy Brae
On the afternoon of the 24th October the Curracloe coastal watch reported that a boat in North Bay was flying a distress signal. A moderate S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea and driving rain. The motor life-boat K.E...
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SEPT. 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An explosion had been reported in the neighbourhood of the Corton Light-vessel, but the life-boat found that the light-vessel itself was all right, and there was no sign of any ship in...