LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Tiger Moth Aeroplane
THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Rye Harbour lifeboat station, Humphrey Lestocq, was at the first floor window of his home on the afternoon of Friday August 27, 1982, watching the flight of a red Tiger Moth fitted with floats, a familiar sight in...
Local lifesavers for Scilly
RNLI lifeguards spent a week on the Isles of Scilly in September, training a group of locals in surf lifesaving.
The group of 12 can now provide safety cover at the sea-based events that are at the heart of Scillonian life...
Category: Articles
Manx tales
The Isle of Man is an unusual location whose community is inextricably linked to the sea – and the RNLI
Set in the midst of the Irish Sea, encircled by all five nations of the UK and RoI, the Isle of Man (IoM) is actually...
Category: Articles
ART OF GLASS
Our cover photo and the images in our piece about Shetland life were made by Jack Lowe using a Victorian process called wet plate collodion
Jack plans to visit all 237 RNLI crews as part of the Lifeboat Station Project,...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
WHITBY No. 1 AND UPGANG, YORK- SHIRE.—The Life-boats at these Stations •which had done duty for many years have been replaced by new boats of the modern self-righting type. The Whitby No. 1 boat is named Robert and Mary Ellis, as was her...
Category: Inaugurations
Rnli News
New Chairman visits Poole headquarters The new Chairman of the RNLI, Mr Michael Vernon, visited the Institution's headquarters and depot at Poole on 31 August, to meet members of staff and talk to a number of station honorary secretaries...
Category: Articles
Aneroid Barometers
Iltestratton of the Fisheriaaa's Aneroid Barometer as issued bj the National Life-boat Institution.
Its Dial or Face, which is enamelled, is five inches in diameter, being half an inch larger tifta the ordinary Mi-sized...
Category: Advertisement
Industry
PORT LOGAN.—A telegram was received on the morning of the 26th January reporting that a vessel was flying a signal of distress about four miles W. of the Mull of Galloway. The Life-boat Edinburgh and B. M. Ballantyne was launched at 10.15...
Albion and Esther
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a rough sea and squally weather, on the 3rd August, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Albion, of and from Buncorn, for the Yealm river,...
Gorleston
— On 7th December, with a N.W. breeze blowing and a heavy ground swell on the sands, the Dutch steamer Friesland, belonging to Rotterdam, stranded on the east side of the Scroby Sands, west of the Bell Buoy. She was on her way, light, from...