LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Greek Motor Vessel Doriefs
Penlee, Cornwall. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 16th June, 1961, a message was received that there was a sick child aboard the Greek motor vessel Doriefs, who ought to be brought ashore. The vessel was making for Penzance. The weather was...
The Yacht Alchemist Being Towed By the Yarmouth, I.o.W., Life-Boat on 26th March, 1967
The yacht Alchemist being towed by the Yarmouth, l.o.W., life-boat on 26th March, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards were held once again on London's South Bank on Tuesday 10 May 1994. Once again both meetings attracted a large and interested assembly to hear of the Institution's work...
Category: Meetings
First Man to Greet the Atlantic Heroes Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth When They Stepped Ashore at Kilronan on the Aran Islands on 3rd September, 1966
First man to greet the Atlantic heroes, Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth when they stepped ashore at Kilronan, on the Aran Islands, on 3rd September, 1966, after their 92 day voyage of 3,000 miles, was Father Joseph McNamara, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ship's Doctor's Gratitude. The Story of a Whitby Rescue
The Story of a Whitby Rescue.
[The following story of a family's gratitude to the Life-boat Service appeared in the " Yorkshire Evening Post " on 5th September last, from the paper's special...
Category: Articles
Attempted Rescue By Second Coxswain
Shortly after 4 p.m. on 12th September, 1967, Mr R. W. S. Gould, who is second coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat, was working in his cafe on the beach at Bembridge when his attention was called to a bather in difficulties some 200 yards...
Category: Services
Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Life-Boats
CATEGORY Services Lives Saved No. Percen- tage of Total No. Percen- tage of Total (1) Naval vessels . . 5 •4% — — (2) Foreign going merchant vessels 31 2-8% 17 3-4% (3) Home trade mer- chant vessels . . 30 2-7% ...
Category: Services
Koo-She
Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...
Miss Beck
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—While the threemasted schooner Miss Beck, of and from Carnarvon for London with slate, was taking the bar on the 5th February in tow of a steam-tug, the tow-rope parted and the vessel was driven ashore on the beach at the...