LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Harewood
At 11 P.M.
on the 1st April the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had stranded on the Inner Binks. A N.W. to W. wind was blowing, with a rough ground sea.
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...
Naming Ceremony: Augustine Courtauld Poole
A force 6 to 7 wind was blowing when Poole's new 44' class lifeboat was named Augustine Courtauld after the well-known explorer by his sister Lady Rayner at Poole Harbour Y.C.
Marina on Wednesday, May 7; caught up...
Category: Inaugurations
Sarah Jane
TENBY, SOUTH "WALES. — The ketch Sarah Jane, of Bridgwater, was observed to be flying a signal of distress in Caldy Roads during a whole gale from the W.
at 2.30 P.M. on the 23rd January. The Life-boat Carolina...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
North Berwick-Scotland Division Perched on the promentary at the very end of the Firth of Forth (seen stretching away in to the distance) North Berwick can be a rough place...
Category: Articles
Kia Ora
— The motor life-boat White Star was launched at 9.15 P.M. on the 27th July, as the coastguard had telephoned that a motor fishing boat was in distress about eighty yards oft the rocks E.S.E. of Kemmaes Head. A moderate N. wind was blowing....
Mouette
Poole, Dorset.—At one o'clock early on the morning of the 24th of September, 1954, a message was received from the coastguard that shouts for help could be heard from a yacht in Poole harbour.
At 1.15 the life-boat...
Special Gifts
From the Sale of Lavender.
IT has already been mentioned in The Life-boat that last year money was made for Branches by the sale of flowers at the Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton Life-boathouse, and also at Appledore. The...
Category: Donations
Bluebell
Kirkcudbright. At 4.45 on the morning of the 19th of November, 1958, a message was received from a resident in Kirkcudbright that cries for heJp had been heard coming from the bayAt 5.12 the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was launched in...
Medallists
Mr Robin Knox- Johnson, the Atlantic sailor, who is a member of the Committee of Management of the RNLI, declared at the annual meeting: 7 think we should remember their families who stay behind while they go out and risk their lives'.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (1)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 5.10 p.m. on 2nd September, 1966, a dinghy with a crew of two was reported to have capsized one mile east of Mugglins.
At 5.15 the life-boat Dunleary II left her moorings in a strong westerly...