LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pictorial Story An IRB Service
This series of IRB photographswas taken by David Harwood on 4th April, 1969,when the Exmouth, Devon, IRB rescued two men whose rowing boat had been swampedat the south endof Western Way.
The two men were suffering from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Handsome Pair!
Two of the collectors from the B irmingham branch attracted the attention of shoppers in the City Centre by wearing RNLI equipment and collecting next to an Atlantic 21 lifeboat.
The two collectors were part of a large team... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
North Berwick
NORTH BERWICK - "This new building for the lifeboat crew, built on the site of a shop, fits remarkably well into the existing conservation area streetscape. Externally, traditional materials have been used to good effect Great care and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Muck and Brass:
Muck and brass: a pile of horse manure was donated to the Royal Tunbridge Wells and District branch and sold by the sack at a coffee morning held at the home of Mrs Joan Pearce, in the village of Front, Sussex. The event brought in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Troubled Trawler
The relief Trent class lifeboat Corinne Whiteley, stationed in Whitby this Autumn while the town’s regular lifeboat was having a refit in Scotland, is pictured in near-gale conditions on 17 September.
In 5m breaking seas,...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Lugger
On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from the N.E. at the time. The...
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NOVEMBER 12TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN. While going out with a horse and cart to gather seaweed on Shinneck Island three young men got into difficulties,when the horse fell, and were drowned before the life-boat could reach the spot. In the...
Seafarers Service
Seven Dorset lifeboatmen, from Poole, Swanage and We y mouth, attended the annual national service for seafarers in St Paul's Cathedral on October 24, when, for the first time, the RNLI flag was carried up the aisle; the flag was carried...
Category: Articles
Shahjehan
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.27 on the morning of the 20th of June, 1955,the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Galloper light- vessel had reported that a motor yacht two miles north-east of the light- vessel had fired red...
Channel Tripper
Hastings, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the 20th of November, 1955, anxiety was felt for the safety of an angling party, which had put off earlier in the day, and at 5.16 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched. The sea was slight, there was a light...