LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Converted Volkswagen Beetle
Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had...
Ellen Myvanwy
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ellen Myvanwy, of Beaumaris, bound from Runcorn for Ramelton, co. Donegal, with a cargo of salt, anchored in Skerries Roads, off Portrush,on the 28th Feb., 1891.
On the 2nd March, a gale...
Mr. Ernest Marples Presents B.E.M. to Mrs. Bella Mattison, of Cullercoats, Famous R.N.L.I. Collector
Mr Ernest Marples Presents B.E.M. To Mrs Bella Mattison of Cullercoats Famous R.N.L.I. Collector. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Devon Brook
AUGUST 28TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.14 in the afternoon the Blyth coastguard reported that the Devon Brook was ashore on the rocks a short distance from the east pier in a very bad position. She was bound from...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Loss of a Bell
A BELL which was bought sixty-three years ago by the fish salesmen of Brixham fish market was used for many years as a speedy method of summoning the crew of the Torbay life-boat even before the maroons were fired. The bell was at one time...
Category: Articles
Hero squad
CBBC’s new TV show Hero Squad is essential viewing for children who dream of going to the rescue one day. Three of the episodes focus on what it’s like to be an RNLI lifesaver.
A group of 12–14-year-olds came to RNLI...
Category: Articles
Nellie Crane
Just before midnight on the 28th November-the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Nellie Crane, of Barrow-in-Furness, had left Barrow at 11 A.M. on a fishing cruise, and had not since been heard of.
There were three...
Lawrence Kelly,
Lawrence Kelly, chairman of Kensington branch since 1974. He received a Gold Badge in 1992..
Category: Obituaries
Constance Ellen
TOTLAND BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT.—At 12 noon on the 15th February the Lifeboat Charles Luckonibe was taken out to the assistance of the brigantine Constance Ellen, of Runcorn, bound from Woolwich for Belfast with iron and cement, stranded on the...