LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The M.F.V.125
DECEMBER 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.50 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a motor fishing vessel near the Wallet Spit Buoy was flashing signals and might be in need of help, and the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden...
A Dinghy
Dinghy in distress The volunteers at Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat station in Somerset were out on exercise on 19 February 2006 when a call came to assist dinghy sailor Tanya Tucker. The boom clip to her mast had broken, causing repeated capsizing...
Three Motor Life-Boat Launches. Kingstown, Baltimore and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly
SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat appeared, the inauguration ceremonies of three new Motor Life-boats have taken place, of the Dunleary, at Kingstown— her splendid voyage from Cowes to Ireland was described by Commander Stopford C....
Category: Inaugurations
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1938
Persons rescued from shipwreck.
Fishing cobles of Filey. Filey pulling and sailing life-boat escorted cobles into safety.
Sailing barge Melissa, of London. Ramsgate motor life-boat saved barge a n d...
Category: Services
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DEC. 20TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Flares had been reported, but they had probably been dropped by aeroplanes as nothing could be found. - Rewards : Cromer, £26 7s. ; Sheringham, £29 9s. 6d..
Free range
With the recession, volcanic ash, and concerns for the environment, more people are taking holidays closer to home, especially to walk our coastal paths. What is the impact on the RNLI?
Waves crashing on a sandy beach or...
Category: Articles
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MAY 5TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Signals at sea level flashing SOS had been reported, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless as she was not needed. - Rewards, £7 13s. 6d.
A Powerboat Rescue By Ray Bulman
WHILE its popularity rise has not been quite so obvious when compared with the pleasure boating explosion as a whole, offshore powerboat racing today has a very strong coastwise following with events held every summer weekend at different...
Category: Articles
Home Base
Lifeboats less then 10 metres long (C and D class inflatables and 21 ft Atlantic rigid inflatables) now carry out more than 55 per cent of all the RNLI's service calls, and with more than 135 boats of these classes now on station, and a...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
RNLB Shoreline New members of Shoreline may not be aware that a lifeboat bearing the name of the organisation is stationed at Arbroath.
Built in 1979, RNLB Shoreline is a 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat with a wooden hull...
Category: Articles