LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Correction
WE deeply regret that in the last issue of The Lifeboat we incorrectly announced the death of one of our oldest Lifeboat workers, Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-on-Sea, at the age of nearly ninety. The error was caused by the fact that we...
Category: Obituaries
A Brawn leader
He’s engineered glorious victories for the best drivers in the world – and now Ross Brawn’s formula for success is helping the RNLI build a new lifeboat.
Ross Brawn is no stranger to spending hours watching teams pit their...
Category: Articles
Caldergate
Ramsgate, Kent. — At C.25 in the evening of the 23rd of April, 1952, the shore attendant on the East Pier reported a ship aground near the Quern Buoy on the Brake Sands, and at 6.39 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings in a smooth sea....
Certain Members of Crews Are Also Trained to Carry Out Rescue Work As Swimmers and Special Wet Suit Swimming Equipment Has Recently Been Developed'
'Certain members of crews are also trained to carry out rescue work as swimmers, and special wet suit swimming equipment has recently been developed.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Confide
Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.50 P.M.
on the 23rd March, 1938, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on Viera Skerry, south of Rousay, in a bad position, and was leaking. A strong S.W. breeze was...
Lillian
NIGHT SEARCH THE life-boat at Buckie, BanfFshire, was launched on 8th August, 1971, because the 20-foot motor ketch Lillian, which had left Findochty at 3 p.m.
for Hopeman, had not arrived at her...
Lifesaving through a lens
Sometimes, there is no better way to show the RNLI’s people and purpose than with a photograph
Lifeboat crew member and award-winning photographer Nigel Millard has devoted 2 years to capturing...
Category: Articles
A Pram Dinghy
CAVE SNATCH NEWS was received at 7.50 p.m. on 22nd September, 1971, that a small boat had been sighted floating close to the cliffs near Bempton.
It appeared to be unmanned. The maroons were fired five minutes later, and at...
Sir William Martin, J.P., F.S.A. (Scot.), Late Organizing Secretary for Scotland
Sir Will'""' Martin.
The Committee of Management, the Staff of the Institution and the many friends of the Life-boat Service in Scotland, learnt with very deep regret of the death of Sir William Martin, on...
Category: Obituaries
A Herring Coble Thankful Arthur
An E.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up on the 28th March while the small herring coble Thankful Arthur, of Filey, was at sea, and as the heavy sea showed every sign of increasing, the Life-boat Queens- bury was launched to her assistance, and...