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Safety - and why it matters

Date: Summer 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 612 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2015

We’ve always been about keeping people safe, and that includes volunteers, staff, and supporters like you, says Chief Executive Paul Boissier:

‘For the last 191 years, the RNLI has been...

Category: Articles

Lord Essendon

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 1.40 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1957, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Lord Essendon, of Hull, with a crew of twenty, was ashore at Ham Bressay. The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was...

Erna

Date: February 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 219

The Yar- mouth Life-boat men were exposed for more than eleven hours to the fury of a strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea, in connection with the wreck of the barque Erna, of Arendal, which became un- manageable when off Yarmouth, on the llth...

Arco

Date: March 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 329

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the morning of the 5th October the coastguard reported a small sailing boat in difficulties about three miles S.E. of Clacton pier. She was the smack Arco, of Leigh-on-Sea, with six men on board. Her sails had been...

Jersey: (Right) Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Presents St.Helier Lifeboat Station's Centenary Vellum to Captain Roy

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

Jersey: (Right) HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother presents St Helier lifeboat station's centenary vellum to Captain Roy Builen, honorary secretary of Jersey Branch. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lewis Drops In

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

Lewis drops in Actor Kevin Whately, known to many as Inspector Lewis of television's Inspector Morse, took time out of his busy schedule to open the Seahouses lifeboat fete on August 30.

Kevin, together with his actress... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Bluebird

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

Dungeness, Kent.—A fisherman reported to the coxswain at 11.45 A.M.

on the 10th August that a yacht had been dismasted a mile south of Dungeness.

She was the Bluebird, bound for Portsmouth from Dover, with...

Provider (3)

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.

While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...

Eva May

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 12th of June, 1956, the coast- guard reported that the local long- shore boat Eva May, with one man on.

board, had left harbour at nine o'clock the morning before, but had not...

Canores

Date: September 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 389

Torbay, Devon. At 7.27 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Vliestroom had asked for the help of a life-boat as she was standing by the yacht Canores. The yacht had lost...