LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lofthouse's Fisherman's Friend
Lofthouse's Fisherman's Friend launched a new fund raising promotion aboard the lifeboat at the Show. Pictured are Mrs Doreen Lotthouse (centre) with her husband Tony and members of the family company and Mrs Alison Saunders (right)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Under Starter's Orders
Pictured at the start of the race are, standing left to right: Mr R. Vivian May, a member of the fund raising committee and deputy president of Bridport branch, the director and Mrs Joan Best, president of Beaminster branch. Kneeling left to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dry Run for a Lifeboat!
Dry run for a lifeboat! Members of Ramsey rugby club, along with other RNLI supporters from the Abbey Hotel, set off to pull a D class lifeboat through the town centre on Ramsey branch flag day. The treasurer, Jim Holloway, was kept busy all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jim Turreff,
Jim Turreff, crew member and emergency mechanic at Alderney lifeboat station was recently awarded the City and Guilds Bronze Medal for excellence for the 2440 Marine Craft Competences Part two - the only student in the UK and Ireland to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£2,136 from Austin Motors
Starting in March 1942 the Austin Motor Company gave the Institution during the war one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it built for ships' life-boats. These gifts made a total of £1,123. The company also held a...
Category: Articles
Putting global drowning on map
The lifeguards Mr and Mrs Painter met in The Gambia were among 30 amazing volunteers trained there by the RNLI in 2013.
The Gambian lifeguards also received some basic rescue equipment from the...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. A British bomber had crashed near Jaywick and the life-boat found her, bottom upwards, but there was no trace of the crew. It was learned later that three of the airmen had swum...
A Vessel (15)
DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned YORK The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
Eidswold
On the 7th December, the tug and Lifeboat went out at about 6 A.M., in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the brig Eidswold, of Arendal, Norway,bound from Sundsvall, Sweden, to Poole.
She had gone ashore...
Naiad
On the 27th October, at abont 7 P.M., the brig Naiad, of Whitby, bound from London to Hartlepool, in ballast, was endeavouring to enter Hartlepool Harbour, but owing to the easterly gale blowing at the time, and a very heavy sea, she...