LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
‘Awesome human beings’
When we heard the RNLI team had managed to get them out safely we were so relieved,’ says Alan, Sebastian and Jacob’s dad. ‘It’s amazing that a team of volunteers are willing to drop everything to come and help.’ The boys’ mum Helen added:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M.M.S. 106
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
Ben Macdui
Rockets were fired from the Wold Lightship, and the Cockle Light afterwards fired guns and rockets, during a light N.N.W. breeze on the night of the 16th December. At 10 o'clock the Caister No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden, was launched...
Hanseat
GERMAN BOAT'S APPEAL Torbay, Devon. At 2 a.m. on 3rd July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a radio message received at Niton radio station from the German coastal vessel Hanseat stated that one of the Hanseat's...
A Record Year
THE work of the Life-boat Service does not grow less. It is actually increasing.
In spite of all that is being done, by new inventions, to make travel by sea safer as well as more comfortable, 146 more calls were made for...
Category: Articles
Foxglove and Faith Star
Whitby, Yorkshire. — Shortly after nine o'clock on the morning of the 29th of November, 1950, while the Whitby fishing fleet was at sea, it was reported that a strong northerly gale had developed, causing a heavy swell.
Daisy
The Life-boat returned to her station at 1.30 A.M., and at 7 P.M. was again towed out by the steamer and rescued the crow of four men from the smack Daisy, of Ramsgate, which, in trying to enter the harbour at low water, took the ground and...
Pupils from 15 Leicestershire Schools
Pupils from 15 Leicestershire schools have raised more than £8,250 to buy a lifeboat. A series of sponsored swims raised the money which has paid for an inshore boat at Happisburgh. The crew were presented with the money by three pupils... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coast review
Despite being nearly 188 years old, the lifeboat service never stands still
How do you decide where to locate a lifeboat station and what kind of craft should be housed there? That’s the job of...
Category: Articles
Sallie
At 6 A.M. on the 31st January the fishing cobles put to sea to haul their lines, and at 9 A.M.
the wind and sea increased. Twenty- one of the cobles got into safety, but the coble Sallie was in great danger when she was...