LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
M.K.D.
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having reported a vessel ashore at Waxham on the 16th March, the No. 1 Lifeboat Good Hope was taken on her transporting carriage along the shore to the scene of the disaster. A strong gale was blowing from...
Lifeboat Open Days 1984 Poole
Poole Headquarters and Depot Thursday July 19 Friday July 20 Saturday July 21 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm FOR ITS 160th anniversary year, the RNLFs head office and depot will once again be open to the public and there will be an...
Category: Articles
Swimmers In Action
When the Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season was out on exercise on 25th August, they were signalled by a fishing coble.
When they went alongside they found that she had a trawl warp round her propeller. The two...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the new Walton and Frinton life-boat, a gift to the Institu- tion...
Category: Advertisement
Shearwater
Swanage, Dorset. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 31st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a helicopter had seen a yacht flying a red flag five miles south-south-west of Anvil Point. A fishing...
At Earls Court Ravmond Baxter
At Earls Court, Ravmond Baxter, chairman of the Public Relations Committee, presented RNLI Public Relations awards to Alun Richards, the author (second from left, back row I. BBC Wales and The Mumbles lifeboat station for their various... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dr. Kenealy and Eva
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th October the trawler Dr. Kenealy, of Hull, when about 150 miles from the Humber, found the Russian schooner Eva, of Abo, dismasted, and abandoned by her crew. She took her in tow, and two of the...
Dear Reader
‘There’s no need to worry. The RNLI will always be there to look after us!’ That’s the oft-heard mantra of many a sea or beach goer – and a dangerous assumption to be tackled.
The costs of maintaining a comprehensive...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Saturday 16 October 1993 saw the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Mersey class Girvan lifeboat Silvia Burrell, a truly remarkable occasion for the lifeboat community of Girvan, as well as the famous Burrell family. Around...
Category: Inaugurations
A Yacht and a Punt
While the honorary secretary was completing his records of the above service his attention was drawn to a small yacht with three youths on board, in difficulties half a mile off shore. At 1.13 p.m. the IRB launched and took the three youths...