LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left) Jon Jones.
while (left) Jon Jones. The Lifeboats Editorial Assistant dispenses ballooons between stints on the Information and Storm Force desks. Jon took a lot of the pictures on this page too, but he doesn't get a 'credit' as he works for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Raft
At 12.25 p.m. on i2th June, 1966, the Skerries lighthouse keeper reported sighting a raft with 10 skin divers on board about one mile off Skerries. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 12.36 in a light south easterly...
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Category: Advertisement
The Polar Challenge
RNLI staff members Clare Kavanagh and Philippa Thompson, along with friend Jocie Robertson, have become the first all-female team to take on the Polar Challenge. The intrepid trio, dubbed the eg arctic angels, set off on their challenge, not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Rescue Boat Centre-Cowes
THE R.N.L.I. has had a long association with firms at Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the construction of life-boats. The earliest life-boats were built by S. E. Saunders and later Messrs. J. Samuel White. Today life-boat construction is...
Category: Articles
Secondary Stations Closed
The no. 2 life-boat has been with- drawn from Padstow and transferred to Poole, and the Padstow no. 2 station was officially closed on the 31st March, 1962. Siltation at the toe of the slip- way and generally in the cove has in recent years...
Category: Articles
Wave Dancer
Fishing trip on the rocks Anstruther - Scotland South Division A Glenrothes man's fishing trip ended on the rocks on 24 July, 1988 when engine failure on his 25ft cruiser Wave Dancer caused the boat to drift on to rocks by a nearby...
Ebb Tide
CRYSTAL CLEAR A curious story emerged when the motor cruiser Ebb Tide of Chiswick lost oil and needed assistance on 9th June. The Dover, Kent, life-boat Faithful Forester—she is one of six 44-foot steel life-boats in service—went out at 6.37...
To the President, from the Gold Coast
SOME years ago reference was made in The Life-boat to letters which had been received from the Gold Coast, in one of which the writer, evidently under the impression that the Institution was a general stores, asked for its catalogues, and...
Category: Correspondence