LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Her First Day of Service
The Bridlington motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, escorting in the Scarborough fishing vessel Irene on the 5th December, 1947.
On the same day she helped to refloat a Fraserburgh drifter.
(See... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Little Ouse
The following account of a service carried out by the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat on the 26th of March, 1960, was received too late for inclusion in the June 1960 number of the Life-boat : At 5.5 in the afternoon, the coast- guard informed...
Golden Rule
BY RADIO TELEPHONE Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 9 p.m.
on 29th April, 1964, a local man reported that he had heard a message on his radio telephone that the motor fishing vessel Golden Rule, of Stromness, needed...
Gone Wrong
Planks of Honduras mahogany, cut for the skin of a life-boat, which warped while being steamed in order to be bent to the shape of the boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dear Reader
How confident are you in the water? Perhaps you are practically a fish, slipping into the surf with ease – or do you prefer to cling to the support of terra firma?
If you’re not an experienced sea user, our feature on page...
Category: Articles
News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
NEW LIFEGUARD AND SWIM SAFE LOCATIONS FOR A SAFER SUMMER
RNLI lifeguards will patrol eight new beaches this summer, including Camber Sands....
Category: Articles
Tunes Popular at the Turn of the Century Fill the Streets of New Romney Every Lifeboat Day This 80-Year-Old Piano Organ Is Wheeled Out and Operated By Mr E N Smith (I) Honorary Treasurer of Li
Tunes popular at the turn of the century fill the streets of New Romney every lifeboat day. This 80-year-old piano organ is wheeled out and operated by Mr E. N. Smith (I.), honorary treasurer of Littlestone-on-Sea station branch, and his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Memorial Life-Boats
WHAT monument can mourners rear To those whose umnark'd graves Lie far from all they held most dear, Fathoms below the waves ? No stately pile of sculptured stone Should tell their modest worth, No proud heraldic shield make known The...
Category: Poetry
On September 1 1976 Walmer Ilb and 37' 6" Rother Lifeboat Hampshire Rose Went to the Help of Yacht Ay Bee Gee Holed By a Baulk of Timber First Crew Member
On September 1, 1976, Walmer ILB and 37' 6" Rother lifeboat Hampshire Rose went to the help of yacht Ay Bee Gee, holed by a baulk of timber.
First, crew members helped her skipper, a Shoreline member who also helps... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs