LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seamu
RESCUE FROM CABIN CRUISER On the evening of the 18th May, 1963, the cabin cruiser Seamu went aground at the entrance to Blakeney harbour.
The Wells life-boat Cecil Paine was called out and rescued two men aboard the Seamu....
Life-Boat and Life-Saving Exhibition
The old Worthing life-boat at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Japanese Life-Boat Disaster
Six members of the crew of the Japanese life-boat Chuyo Mam lost their lives when the life-boat capsized in heavy seas on the 23rd of May, 1958.
On hearing of the disaster the Institution sent a message expressing its...
Category: Articles
Whitby's 'Codfish'
In connection with the photograph of the codfish collecting box at Whitby, which appeared on page 172 of the October issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, it has been pointed out that the photograph was taken by Mr. A. Greenwood, of York, and that the man...
Category: Articles
John R Atterton
John R. Atterton, MBE, the retiring deputy director, has served the Institution since 1936.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
PICTURE FOR BRANCH
The Swanage branch of the R.N.L.I. has been presented with a large coloured print of David Cobb's painting of the scene off Anvil Point on 22nd October, 1966, when a Norwegian freighter, with survivors from a yacht, met the Swanage...
Category: Branches
Holding Position
Holding position at a safe distance, the crew tackle the raging fire.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Godrevy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.19 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1956, a telephone message was received that a fishing boat had been seen burning flares west of Point Le Moye. At 7.37 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out. There was...
Susie
During a moderate N.N.E. breeze on the 31st March the dandy Susie of Yarmouth was seen to go ashore on the Bell Buoy shoal and to begin to bump heavily in the rough sea. It was then 4.30 P.M.
and within a few minutes the...
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Barra Island, Hebrides. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 14th August, 1961, the local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a patient with appendicitis to South Uist hospital. At 1.55 the life-boat...