LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Raisers Car booty! Hundreds of people made money from filling their car boots with unwanted items and selling them at the sale organised by Henley branch, but the real winner was the Institution which received a staggering...
Category: Articles
Medieval Knights Raise Funds for Lifeboats!
Knights in shining armour left to right: Roy Turner of Christchurch branch committee; Geoff and Val Winship; one of the jousting knights; Dennis Duddy, branch treasurer and Eric Freeman, branch chairman.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE RNLI'S ASSOCIATION with the Queen's Jubilee and with activities of the Royal Family during the Jubilee summer were widespread and colourful. On July 14 the Queen named the new Hartlepool lifeboat The Scout. This was the first...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1938
Persons rescued from shipwreck.
Fishing cobles of Filey. Filey pulling and sailing life-boat escorted cobles into safety.
Sailing barge Melissa, of London. Ramsgate motor life-boat saved barge a n d...
Category: Services
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 34). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Category: Articles
Slick rescue
In the midst of an ecological disaster, St Mary’s and Penlee volunteers helped keep 35 people safe.
The crude oil supertanker Torrey Canyon left Kuwait on 19 February 1967 for Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. Her crew were...
Category: Articles
Barge disaster averted
Chiswick lifeboat crew were on exercise on 22 March when they were tasked to a barge drifting beam-on towards Hammersmith Bridge. The barge’s engine had stalled and would not restart, and she couldn’t deploy her anchor. The lifeboat took the...
Category: Articles
Les William (Les Marine)
Les William (Les Marine) - former Burry Port lifeboat station Helmsman and Lifeboat Operations Manager.
Category: Obituaries
The Unveiling of the Memorial
The unveiling of the memorial by his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, Air Marshal Ian Macfadyen (pictured to the left of sculpture, at the front).
Also pictured (from left to right) is David Cretney... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Girvan - Mersey Class Silvia Burrell
Pictured (from left to right) are Archie MacKenzie, chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish Lifeboat Council and member of the committee of management, second coxswain Stuart Moffat, Mrs Sue Stephen, His Grace the Duke of Atholl,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs