LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life cycle
Each Summer, Londoners Nick Pleydell-Bouverie and Rad Hart-George swap their suits for cyclists’ Lycra and head off on the next stage of their RNLI Tour of Britain
The ambitious idea was...
Category: Articles
Balloon Races
FOUR branches have carried out balloon races with great success this year.
At St. Albans, where the race was being held for the third time, about a thousand balloons were sent off, of which eighty-five were...
Category: Articles
Breaksea
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Breaksea (1)
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Lifeboat Services September October and November 1981
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: September 18 and October 6 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: September 11 and October 11 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: September 13 and 26 Aith, Shetland 52ft Barnett: September 11, 26 and October...
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the 5th April a heavy broken sea on the bar prevented the majority of the fishing fleet from putting out to sea, but three of the cobles ventured out, incurring great risk and causing considerable excitement. About 1.30 two of them...
From angling to sinking
When a group of four adults and a child discovered their speedboat was taking on water in choppy seas off Cork's Wild Atlantic Way, they desperately needed a lifeboat crew's...
Category: Articles
Freda, Star of Hope and Radiant Morn
The Staithes fishing fleet put out at 5 a.M. on the 20th December in moderate weather.
Later the wind got .up, and by 10.30 A.M. a moderate and increasing N.N.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
M. A. Stephens
OCTOBER 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 4.50 in the morning, the Yarmouth coastguard reported a white flare on Scroby Sands two or three miles in a north-easterly direction. A moderate east-south-east breeze was blowing and...
Rescue Cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (Left) and R S Platou of Norway Both Are Designed to Accompany Their Fishing Fleets to Sea
Rescue cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (left) and R. S. - View image in PDF
Platou of Norway. Both are designed to accompany their fishing fleets to sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs