LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (1)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
A Rowing Punt
FEBRUARY 28TH . - POOLBEG , CO .DUBLIN. At 5.30 P.M. a resident of Ringsend reported that a small open boat was adrift in the fairway of the River Liffey, east of Pigeon House Fort. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and an...
Beach volunteers save life
RNLI lifeguards on Fistral Beach, Cornwall, volunteered to carry out weekend patrols without pay last Winter. It was a good job they were there on 7 November 2010, when a bodyboard instructor carried out a headcount after leaving the water –...
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New! Online Magazine
Lifeboat is especially for loyal, regular givers and members like you. But there is also a new online magazine for everyone interested in the RNLI – with content you can’t get in a quarterly print publication, such as videos and recent...
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A Sailing Boat (5)
JULY 6TH - .WALMER, KENT. At 12.50 P.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a sailing boat with five people on board was flying an oilskin in her rigging near Deal Bank Buoy. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough...
What happened NEXT?
Tobermory Lifeboat Station’s Sam Jones tells us what occurred minutes after this photo was taken: ‘A post rededication ceremony selfie with two coxswains and a chairman. Minutes later the pagers went off and the newly rededicated Tobermory...
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A Vessel (11)
MARCH 12TH. - ARBROATH, MONTROSE, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. On the afternoon of the 12th information was received at Arbroath and Montrose that an unknown vessel was in distress about twenty miles eastward of Arbroath.. A later message reported...
A Vessel (10)
MARCH 12TH. - ARBROATH, MONTROSE, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. On the afternoon of the 12th information was received at Arbroath and Montrose that an unknown vessel was in distress about twenty miles eastward of Arbroath.. A later message reported...
None (98)
NOVEMBER 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 9.22 A.M. the coastguard reported that an airman had baled out from his aeroplane a mile E.S.E. of the coastguard lookout. A S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight swell. The No. 1...
Jeune Hortense
PENZANCE. — The brigantine Jeune Hortense, of Nantes, bound from Brest for Fowey, in ballast, dragged her anchors during a heavy ground sea on the 17th May, and drove ashore on the Eastern Green just under the Long Rock. The Dora Life-boat...