LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wave Sheaf
MOTOR FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR ENTRANCE Stromness, Orkneys. At 11.21 on the night of the 25th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the motor fishing vessel Wave Sheaf of Lossiemouth was ashore near the Point of...
DANGER RISING
As a frightened young couple shelter in a sea cave, powerful swells break over the rocks and the tide rises towards them. Will local lifeboat volunteers reach the trapped teens in time?
When a warm afternoon turned to cool...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Three saved — • , — --. -—— from grounded yacht in rojjgh conditions The three crew members aboard St Bees' Atlantic earned a letter of thanks from Michael Vlasto the RNLI's Chief .of Operations following a difficult service to...
Category: Services
Hope, of Aberystwith
The services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition on the evening of the 23rd December under the following circumstances:—A light being observed on the South Bank while it was blowing fresh from the S.W., the...
The Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum at Cardiff Docks
The Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum at Cardiff Docks held a reception on June 7 to welcome to its ranks the 42ft Watson lifeboat Watkin Williams, on station at Moelfre from 1956 to 1977.
Guest of honour, seen here with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Exercise By Andrew Gould Assistant Public Relations Officer RNLI
IT is THE PRACTICE in the lifeboat service for the divisional inspector of lifeboats to make a formal visit to each of the offshore lifeboat stations in his division once every six months (every three months for ILBs) for the purpose of...
Category: Articles
Unseaworthy Ships
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, As the saving of life from shipwreck must always be a subject of great interest to the public of this country, by whatever means it may be...
Category: Correspondence
Sofa so good
RNLI supporters using internet auction site eBay raised £55,597 for the charity last year. Among them was Martin Craig from St Ives, Cornwall, who raised £99 by selling some old furniture.
He was helping his...
Category: Articles
Letters
AIRBORNE LIFE-BOATS 0 I was looking at back numbers of THE LIFEBOAT and came on your issue of January, 1971, in which an airborne life-boat in connection with the Wells, Norfolk, article was shown being dropped off the east coast on 5th May,...
Category: Correspondence
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