LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The 1985 Boat and Caravan Show Birmingham
Fund raisers from the Midlands manned the RNLI stand at the National Exhibition Centre; 123 Shoreline and 36 Storm Force members were enrolled and takings amounted to an impressive £8,521. The main RNLI exhibit was the new St Agnes D... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore Spent An Hour With the Rnli When Visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy Last Autumn (Above Right—Royal Marine Phot
The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore, spent an hour with the RNLI when visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy last autumn. (Above right—Royal Marine photograph) He was transferred by Atlantic 21 1LB to (above) Arun class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Returning the Compliment
Staff from the RNLI's depot and headquarters gave a helping hand to the Children in Need Appeal on 1 December last year when they made a 'double circumnavigation' of Poole. The D class inflatable stayed firmly ashore, being... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mattias
Two incidents on opposite sides of the English Channel during January resulted in seven seamen being landed from leaking commercial vessels.
Safely ashore - one. The four crew from the coaster Manias are pictured (right)...
A Speed Boat
New recruits in at the deep end It was Gary Roberts' first ever lifeboat service and Dwynwen Parry was only nine months into her probationary period, but under the wing of Helmsman David Jones, they helped to save a family of four from...
Douglas, Isle of Man - Ireland Division
Douglas, home of Sir William Hillary the founder of the RNLI, was one of the earliest places in the British Isles to be provided with a lifeboat. Hillary witnessed many shipwrecks there and established the lifeboat stations, himself helping... - View image in PDF
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Eilean Mo Grhidh
Norman Salvesen was involved in a less hazardous, but nonetheless demanding, tow on 7 April this year when she successfully brought the 450-ton cargo vessel Eilean Mo Grhidh to safety after her engines had failed and the tide was sweeping...
Chelsea Pensioner at Chiswick
The second Thames E class lifeboat was named at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. It was funded by Dr Patricia Baguley, but has been named Chelsea Pensioners recognition of the valuable support the In- Pensioners have given to the RNLI over more... - View image in PDF
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Some swim
A Wicklow family brought their yacht across Ireland by canal to the Shannon estuary in June. On the last Saturday of the month, the skipper stopped to erect the mast but drifted onto rocks 1½ miles east of Aughinish. Kilrush’s B class...
Category: Articles
Argound and Holed
Howth’s Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker III was called out on 10 September when a large powerboat ran aground just off Lambay Island.
At the rocky scene, the lifeboat crew launched their daughter XP boat to get in closer...
Category: Articles