LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ferry Exercise:
Ferry exercise: three lifeboat stations, Sheerness, Margate and Ramsgate, with helicopters from RAF Mansion took part in an exercise to evacuate a cross-Channel ferry on January 13 (right). The Sally Line ferry, made specially available by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marie Louise
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a report was received that a motor vessel was aground on the Salisbury bank in the River Dee. She was not in any danger and watch was kept on her.
At 4.20...
New RNLI award
Lifeguards Nick Dowrick, Gareth Howarth, Tom Burgess and Emma Williams are to be presented with the inaugural Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award this Summer.
The new annual award is for the most meritorious rescue by RNLI...
Category: Articles
Pilot Me and Royal Empire
On returning to harbour shortly after 4 P.M. on the 21st February the crew of the fishing boat Pilot Me reported that they had found the breaking seas at the harbour entrance very difficult and that the coble Royal Empire had yet to make...
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Obituary
WE regret to report the death of Mr. ROBERT BIRKBECK, which took place on the 19th November, 1920, at the age of eighty-three after a loug illness.
Mr. Birkbeck had been a Member of the Committee of Management since ability...
Category: Obituaries
A collector’s item
The RNLI has made bold advances since its foundation in 1824. But one area that has seen little change is the double-ended lifeboat collection box (right). This iconic design, based on the pulling and sailing lifeboats of yesteryear, came to...
Category: Articles
Humber:
Humber: The 100-year-old, 86ft gaff-rigged ketch, William McCann, had run aground at Donna Nook on the night of Saturday November 17, 1984. Her II passengers were lifted off during the night by helicopter while Humber's 54ft Arun class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The James H. Price, of Savannah
AUGUST 28TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 in the evening, a steamer was seen to be in danger of running ashore and the life-boat coxswain put out in a shore boat to investigate.
A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and the...
Falmouth November 15 1987:
FAI.MOUTH, NOVEMBER 15, 1987: harnessed into a helicopter strop, WEM J R Stevenson is lowered gently from the boat davit of his ship HMS Challenger to the deck of Falmouth's 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant after... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs