LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Where Is Everybody?
Where is everybody? This lonely collector was one of the many who collected in Chichester on Saturday 22 July. Even though the collector was suitably dressed in shorts for the very hot weather, most of the public appeared to be at the beach!... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TEAMING UP WITH THE AMERICA’S CUP
RNLI supporter and competitive sailor Sir Ben Ainslie (left) takes to the water at Portsmouth this month with his British Challenger, Land Rover BAR, as part of his mission to win the 2017 America’s Cup with his Great Britain crew. And...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Skoghaug
STANDING BY FOR 22 HOURS Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—At 12.24 in the afternoon of January 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run aground on the Black Rocks one mile south-east of Dunbar in a thick fog. The weather was...
Lifeboat Appeals
A LUCKY TEN PENCE ticket has won a brand new Saab 99 Combi Coupe car for Mrs Pat Walters of Farnham, Surrey, in a competition which raised £13,000 for the new Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat. The car, donated by Saab (UK) Ltd and...
Category: Donations
Cover Picture
This photograph by Mr. Ronald E. Turner of the R.N.L.I.'s hull drawing office staff shows one of the Institution's McLachlan fast rescue boats—the fast R.N.L.I, rescue craft to be specifically designed for the Institution with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Donaghadee Co Down and Portpatrick Wigtownshire
The distance between Donaghadee, Co Down and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, is approximately 22 miles and is one of the trickiest sea crossings in UK waters. On one Saturday in July 1985, after waiting a week for a favourable weather forecast,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Service Awards
Awards to coxswains, crew members and shore helpers The following people were awarded certificates of service on their retirement in 2000.
* denotes coxswain Names in italic have served at least 30 years Names in blue have...
Category: Awards
Cynthia
MAY 22 ND. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At about midnight on the 21st May a ship was seen amongst the rocks just south of Runswick, and at 1.50 A.M. on the 22nd the motor life-boat Robert Patton - The Always Ready was launched....
Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1977
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire July 16.
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 5 (twice), 9 (twice), July 3 (3 times), 7, 10, 26, August 4, 17 and 20.
Abersoch, Gwynedd June 5, 10, 16, 30, July 11, 18, 21, August 11, 20, 21 and...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakers One Gold Medal Five Bronze Medals Two Thanks on Vellum with a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost...
Category: Services