LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Puffin, of Rochester
FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later the motor lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...
Mary Rose
Dover, Kent. At 1.45 p.m. on 3rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small local motor boat Mary Rose was in difficulty having lost her propeller one mile eastsouth- east of St. Margarets Bay. The life-boat...
Tomaray
Dover: On Saturday September 10, 1983, a day of north-westerly gales and rough seas, Dover's 50ft Thames lifeboat Rotary Service, under the command of Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins, was just returning to harbour from one...
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Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.
D class...
Goodbye and Good Luck Dave!
Goodbye and good luck Dave! Retiring Port Talbot station honorary secretary, Dave Aubrey (pictured left) hands the reins over to his successor Robert Harris. Dave has served the Institution for over 30 years, 24 of them as station honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brightening Village Life
IT has long been the basis of the Institution's appeal for support that there is not a man or woman in these islands—dependent as they are on overseas trade for their prosperity— who does not directly or indirectly benefit by the...
Category: Articles
Sarah Ross
AUG. 26TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 12.30 A.M. a message was received from the relatives of two men on board the motor fishing boat Sarah Ross, of Peterhead, that they were overdue. A light N.W. breeze was blowing,...
Bookshelf
The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats by A. K. Oliver and J. C. Harrison The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats was first compiled by Anthony Oliver, now the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, nearly 30 years ago but the station's...
Category: Articles
Not Just Boots
The recent advertising campaign '£5 buys him a pair of boots' has highlighted the costs of kitting out a lifeboatman.
The protective clothing, boots, bump cap, lifejacket and lifeline cost £167. It's...
Category: Drawings
Your Shout
your shout Dear Editor, My wife and I were privileged recently to spend a day visiting RNLI Headquarters at Poole. Every aspect that we saw or heard made us deeply proud of the Lifeboat service and full of admiration both for the people and...
Category: Correspondence