LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned YORK The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
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MAN TAKEN FROM RHUM IN GALE Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 5.50 on the evening of Monday, the 16th September, 1963, the Factor of the island of Rhum telephoned the honorary secretary asking for the help of the life-boat as a man had a...
Opposite Bottom: Atlantic 75. Phyl Clare 3, Weymouth Lifeboat
Opposite bottom: Atlantic 75. Phyl Clare 3, Weymouth lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Festivities In Courtmacsherry Harbour During the Naming Ceremony
Festivities in Courtmacsherry Harbour during the naming ceremony for the station's new Trent Class Frederick Storey Cockburn with the station's previous boat, the Waveney class Arthur and Blanche Harris, visible astern of the new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Men Not In a Boat:
Three men not in a boat: should the twin-engined lift 6in C class inflatable lifeboat ever have the misfortune to capsize, this is the correct way to right her. The demonstration, given by RNLI staff at Cowes base, shows how the special... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miss G M Milburn
JULY 1988:Miss G. M. Milburn, donor of the Waveney class lifeboat The White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class lifeboat Gwynaeth, both stationed at Whitby.William Pritchard, coxswain of Beaumans lifeboat until his retirement in 1980.
Category: Obituaries
Below: Dunbar
Below: Launching restrictions mean that Dunbar's Trent class has to launch from the power station up the road but the old red sandstone boathouse is still home to the station's D class and crew facilities.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifesaving on the edge
When lifeguards found a seriously injured man in the water, it would take three RNLI teams to bring him to safety over an island’s rocky ledges
Hoylake volunteer Marcus Swaine was already...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting
and presentation of awards FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, MAY 21A BRIGHT, sunny morning; friends from all parts of Britain and Ireland gathering on the South Bank of the Thames ready for the annual general meeting and presentation of awards in this...
Category: Meetings
The Danish Fishing Vessels Clupea, Rosslau, Anne Stranne and Kami
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...