LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At Reigate Blackie (Below I) Races After Coins Thrown In the Long Bar at the Market Hotel and Takes Them to James Ware for the Lifeboat Box Bobbie (R) Delivers Papers To
At Reigate, Blackie (below, I.) races after coins thrown in the long bar at The Market Hotel and takes them to James Ware for the lifeboat box. Bobbie (r.) delivers papers to handicapped readers and earns Ip per head per day which his owner,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MAY 18TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the afternoon an urgent request for the help of the life-boat was received from a doctor to take him to a serious pneumonia case on Inisheer Island. No other boat was available, and at 4.50 the motor life-boat...
Casualty Might Have Capsized
OUTSTANDING services in which courage and skilled seamanship were displayed by St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, life-boat personnel in the rescue of ten crew from a Swedish motor vessel under fierce weather conditions, have been recognised...
Category: Services
Him and the Crew and Sending a Donation to the Station He Said '/ Have Been Sailing Various Boats at Sea for 21 Years and Suppose That I Have Always Had It at the Bac
him and the crew and sending a donation to the station. He said, '/ have been sailing various boats at sea for 21 years and suppose that I have always had it at the back of my mind that the lifeboat service would come to my assistance in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cumulus I
Clawing off beach AT 2302 ON FRIDAY December 23, 1977, St Anns Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station that the cargo vessel Cumulus I of Panama bound from Glasgow to Beirut appeared to be in serious...
'I DON'T WANT TO DIE’
Where river meets sea, standing waves are an ominous threat to anyone in a small boat. With a 2m swell and spring
tide, conditions on 21 August at the mouth of the country’s second-fastest river overwhelmed an underpowered and...
Category: Articles
'Their hearts must have sunk as they watched us pass them'
It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for
RNLI Peterhead...
Category: Articles
No Sea Room—And Other Things
No Sea Room -and other things ROCKS, SHALLOWS or obstructing lines reduced the lifeboats' manoeuvring room in four of the services (described briefly below) for which medals for gallantry were presented at the Royal Festival Hall in May...
Category: Articles
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SEPTEMBER 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported down, north of St. Patrick’s Causeway, but a search by the life-boats, aeroplanes, and an R.A.F. boat was without result. and...
I invented the lifeboat!
After 186 years of innovation, the RNLI is recognised internationally as a leader in lifeboat design and development. So why does the title ‘lifeboat inventor’ and the achievements of three 18th-century gentlemen still cause controversy and...
Category: Articles