LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lough of the Irish
With half of its crew women, seven of its volunteers from the same family and not a drop of salt water in sight, Lough Derg is a unique lifeboat stationAt the turn of the Millennium the RNLI began to look at new ways to save lives, in...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (6)
St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 8.40 p.m. on loth July, 1967, a message was received that a sailing dinghy fromForth isle appeared to be in difficulties.
The life-boat Joseph Soar (Civil Service No. 34) was launched at...
Concorde Noses Down the Thames for Its Last Journey
One of the RNLI Thames lifeboats turned out to see Concorde making her final journey during April. It was an unusual event because instead of flying at an altitude of 11 miles, Concorde was 'sailing' along the Thames aboard a barge.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Caister Station Endangered
There have been two Life-boats at Caister, on the Norfolk coast, one for seventy, the other for sixty years, and they have the magnificent record of 1709 lives rescued from shipwreck.
These two boats lie on the open sandy...
Category: Articles
Maisie
ON THE ROCKS At 1.15 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had seen a red flare north of Trevor Point. There was a very rough sea with gale force west-south-westerly winds.
The tide had...
South-Western District Conference
A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...
Category: Meetings
Cardenia
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the Foreland coastguard reported that a yacht was making distress sig- nals off St. Helen's Fort. The life- boat Jesse Lumb, which had just returned from an...
An Aeroplane (25)
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 12 1980: 1,215 people rescued; nearly £12 million raisedTUESDAY MAY 12 was the day of the RNLI's 1981 annual general meeting of the governors and annual presentation of awards and, as usual...
Category: Meetings
The Fawn
About noon on the 31st July a small fishing smack, the Fawn, of Yarmouth, was seen to be aground on the east side of the Barber Sands. As the sea, which was very broken on the sands, commenced break- ing over the smack, and the crew had no...