LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vital Volunteers
It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Thank you...for saving our lives Received by Hastings and St Leonards branch following a service to three men aboard the yacht Martina on 13-14 July 1991: Gentlemen, Having had the chance to collect my thoughts on the events of last Saturday...
Category: Correspondence
A Vessel (1)
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—14th January. 1938. A vessel appeared to be in distress, and in the absence of the coxswain and the second coxswain, the assistant motor mechanic took charge.
—Rewards, vellum and monetary...
Silver and Bronze Medallists
Coxswain Edwin Madron, of Penlee, and John Drew, the motor mechanic. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline Section
SHORELINE membership continues to increase steadily and insignia sales continue their upward trend. It is encouraging to find several boats in some of the larger harbours flying Shoreline flags, and to pass the occasional car on the road...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.05 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, a sailing dinghy, with two people on board, capsized in Peterhead Bay. At 12.20 the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and smooth...
Squibbs
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - While the reserve life-boat H. F. Bailey was on passage from Arklow to Rosslare harbour on 3ist May, 1966, she came up with a small yacht which was becalmed with her engine broken down, south of Cahore Point....
A Sponsored Row from Bristol to Appledore Which Was Attempted By Crew Members from Appledore Unfortunately Had to Be Abandoned After About 20 Miles Due to Strong Winds and Aggravation
A sponsored row from Bristol to Appledore which was attempted by crew members from Appledore, unfortunately had to be abandoned after about 20 miles due to strong winds and aggravation to an old hand injury of one of the rowers.
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Category: Photographs
Canoes
Canoes HEARING AT 1335 on Saturday May 26, 1979, that a canoe had capsized off Dover, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins informed Dover Port Control that he and a crew member who was with him were going to the boathouse to stand by....
Lt David Stogdon Mbe
Lt David Stogdon, MBE, former superintendent of depot, Cowes, joined the RNLI in 1952.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs