LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI through a lens
Howard Evans, a fundraiser from Weston-super-Mare, is the 2009 RNLI Photographer of the Year. His photo, shown on the front cover, was taken at the station’s open day and demonstrates the cruel conditions under which lifeboat crew often find...
Category: Articles
Merlin
Margate, Kent.—At 11.6 on the morn- ing of the 19th of April, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a cabin cruiser had broken down in Kingsgate Bay, but had made no distress signals.
Watch was kept on her, and at 11.53...
Fantome
Selsey, Sussex.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of May 18th, 1955, the coast- guard rang up to say that a sailing boat had capsized three and a half miles south of Thorney Island, and that a helicopter was on its way to her. About 1.15 a...
A Dinghy (2)
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties and drift- ing off Porthdinllaen Point. The life- boat...
From Left to Right: Mr. John Lodge, Tamasine, Mrs. Pam Bull, Mr. John Bull, Coxswain Charles Bolingbroke and Mr. Harry Platt.
From left to right: Mr. - View image in PDF
John Lodge, Tamasine, Mrs. Pam Bull, Mr. John Bull, Coxswain Charles Bolingbroke and Mr. - View image in PDF
Harry Platt.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lifeboat Is Packed Up and Dispatched By Students of Poole Adult Training Centre (Left) Recently the Centre Donated £30 from Its Amenity Fund to the Rnli And
THE LIFEBOAT is packed up and dispatched by students of Poole Adult Training Centre (left). Recently the Centre donated £30 from its amenity fund to the RNLI and (above) Mrs J. Sykes, deputy manager, presents the cheque to Commander E.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Illustration from the Lifeboat February 1881 of the Wreck of Indian Chief: Ramsgate Lifeboat Bradford In Tow of the Tug Vulcan
Illustration from THE LIFEBOAT, February 1881, of the wreck of Indian Chief: Ramsgate lifeboat, Bradford, in tow of the tug Vulcan..
Category: Drawings
Crew Member Robbie Maiden Spent 35 Minutes In the Water After Being Swept Overboard from the Scout. the Damage to the Waveney's Mast and Communicat
Crew member Robbie Maiden spent 35 minutes in the water after being swept overboard from The Scout. - View image in PDF
The damage to the Waveney's mast and communications equipment is obvious.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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SE P T E M B E R 2 0 T H . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. An R.A.F. officer had been drowned bathing and the police asked that his body, which could be seen, might be recovered, but it floated into a creek inaccessible to the life-boat and was...
The Earl of Harrowby
JOHN HERBERT DUDLEY RYDER, fifth Earl of Harrowby, died on the 30th of March, 1956, at the age of 91. The Earl of Harrowby had held the office of treasurer of the Institution longer than anyone else in the Institution's history. He was...
Category: Obituaries