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New RNLI Vice Chair

Date: Summer 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 612 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2015

The RNLI is recruiting a new Vice Chair as part of plans to find a successor to our current Chairman, Charles Hunter-Pease. Charles has stated his intention to retire in 2017, after what will have been 4 years of dedicated and inspirational...

Category: Articles

Ready to launch

Date: Winter 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 610 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2014

Volunteer crew members are now on stand-by 24/7 at new trial lifeboat stations at Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, and Union Hall, Co Cork. The RNLI has declared both stations as search and rescue assets, with Atlantic 75 inshore...

Category: Articles

Rhuddlan Castle

Date: November 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 138

RAMSGATE.—At midnight on the 30th of March signals were fired by the Gull and Goodwin Lightships, and a flare was seen on the North Sand Head. The Bradford Life-boat stationed at Ramsgate put out in tow of the harbour steam-tug...

Special delivery

Date: Winter 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 614 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2015

YEARS OF THEIR LIVES - CORRECTION

Many thanks to reader Mark Harvey who contacted us about the main image for the Years of Their Lives feature in the last edition. According to our archive...

Category: Articles

The Auxiliary Yawl Mutin

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

DECEMBER 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.

At 8.2 A.M. the Berry Head coastguard reported a small sailing vessel two miles E.N.E,. from Berry Heed making S.O.S. signals, A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat...

Blue Peter Scrapbook

Date: Autumn 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 621 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2017

Words: Philly Byrde
Research: Hayley Whiting
Photos: Nicholas Leach, RNLI Archive,
RNLI/(Chris Cousens, Fishguard)

Fifty years ago, the very first Blue Peter lifeboats went to their new...

Category: Articles

A Vessel

Date: November 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 292

Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.

On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...

False Alarms. A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message In a Bottle

Date: November 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 304

A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message in a Bottle.

THREE more have to be added to the many and varied false alarms which have called out Life-boats.* On 25th August last, the Motor Life-boat at...

Category: Articles

Letters

Date: September 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 425

Your paragraph (THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1968, page 61) reminds me that Mr.

Robson of North Street, New Romney, Kent, has a collecting box which was in the old Pilot Inn (now demolished) in the 1880s or 1890s. It was given to...

Category: Correspondence

New Ways of Raising Money

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

Mr. George Mason of the Cross Keys Hotel, Llandudno, filled his bar counters with daffodils on St. David's Day and asked all those who took one to make a contribution in the life-boat collecting box.

* * * * The girls...

Category: Donations