LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Physical Peak
A team from Bristol University Officers Training Corps completed the Three Peaks Challenge last June raising over £300 for lifeboat coffers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top Left: Raf Sea King
Top left: RAF Sea King salutes the tnvergordon lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith following her naming ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain James Adam
Coxswain James Adam who joined the Stromness lifeboat crew in 1946 and became coxswain in 1953, a position he held until 1963..
Category: Obituaries
Cheap As Chips
The BBC recently broadcast its first Bargain Hunt programme from Northern Ireland with two competing teams from Portaferry lifeboat station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature: International Rescue
In 1924, the RNLI celebrated its 100th birthday. It was not alone in the world as a lifeboat service, and foreign friends came to the UK to join the festivities. This gathering was so successful that it was made a regular event, with a...
Category: Articles
Schooners Reaper, John Snell and Elizabeth Austin. Fishing Yawl Good Intent
On the 28th October, about noon, a vessel was observed to be fast drifting on Whitby Bocks. She, however, succeeded in clearing the rocks, and was driven with tremendous force on the beach. The wind was then blowing a hurricane from the...
Hamble River 1030 Whit Sunday Morning: Half a Mile to Go!
Hamble River, 1030 Whit Sunday morning: half a mile to go!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marie Helene
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 10.45 P-m- °n 29tn June, 1967, it was learned that flares had been sighted 14 miles east south east of the Lizard. This was confirmed by the Norwegian motor vessel Possum. The life-boat, The Duke of...
STRANDED IN A CAVE
MINEHEAD | 18 DECEMBER
Minehead lifeboat crew launched at first light after a husband and son reported their wife/mother missing. She had slipped 3m down a cliff near her home in Porlock, Devon, and – unable to climb back up –...
Category: Services
Irene and Goodwill
At 2 p.m. on 2ist October, 1966, two fishing vessels were being carried on to Barnard wharf. The motor fishing vessel Irene had fouled her propeller and the motor fishing vessel Goodwill had broken down while towing her. Only the Irene had...