LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
March Hare
Deja vu The duo that rescued the lives of four people on the yacht Headstrong are making a habit of saving lives in outstanding services Dave Milford and Sean Marshall have been awarded the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for their role...
Inaugural Ceremony at Maryport
ON 27th September the inaugural ceremony took place of the new motor life-boat which has been built for the station at Maryport, Cumberland. The new boat was welcomed by the Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., G.C.V.O., D.L., Hereditary Admiral of the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Admiralty Motor Fishing Vessel No. 641
FEBRUARY 24TH. - ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE. At 4.20 in the morning the naval base at Milford Haven asked through the coastguard that the life-boat be sent to search for a dinghy which had been reported by an aeroplane about twelve miles...
Going Alongside and Survivor Recovery
WHEN A LIFEBOAT reaches a vessel in distress in gale or storm force winds she has come to the heart of her problem; how best the people on board may be brought safely to shore. Can she go alongside and take off the survivors. Or is there a...
Category: Articles
GIVE IT A GO: FOSSIL HUNTING
Ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs?
Foraging for fossils at the coast may be the closest you’ll get
Paddy Howe’s fascination with fossils started at a young age. ‘When I was a kid, I was...
Category: Articles
Pilot Cutter No.1
Appledore, Devon. — At 7.7 in the evening of the 30th of November, 1948, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that Pilot Cutter No. 1 was in difficulties on Bideford Bar and burning flares, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was...
American Connection: the Naming of Two Atlantic 21 Lifeboats American Ambassador at Atlantic College and Spirit of America at Hunstanton
Atlantic College Atlantic College is a remarkable place in many respects. Housed in St Donat's Castle, built in the fifteenth century, it is perched on rocky slopes which tumble down to the waters of the Bristol Channel. Within the...
Category: Inaugurations
Ennal's Point
Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI, has been talking to Alun Richards, the Welsh novelist and play write who has adapted his lifeboat-based novel 'Ennal's Point' into a six-part television drama series which will be shown...
Category: Articles
Service to a Greek Steamer at Cromer
AT 6.25 in the morning of the 9th October, 1939, the Cronier coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles to the east. A breeze was blowing with increasing...
Category: Services
Surviving at Sea
As an organisation that aims to improve safety at sea – and one that is rooted in the UK’s maritime heritage – the Lloyd’s Register Group (LRG) shares plenty of ground with the RNLI. In 2004 it set up a separate registered charity dedicated...
Category: Articles