LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 15th May, 1938, an outboard motor boat capsized about two hundred yards off shore and four and a half miles west of Clacton. A slight S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Category: Services
Second Coxswain Vic Pitman Weymouth: 'she Just Takes to the Sea Like a Seagull Would'
Second Coxswain Vic Pitman, Weymouth: 'She just takes to the sea like a seagull would'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: the new boathouse and slipway take shape beside the old
Above: The new boathouse and slipway take shape beside the old. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
RESCUE craft of the R.N.L.I. were launched on service more often in 1964 than in any other year since the Institution was founded in 1824. The number of launches by life-boats was 929 and by inshore rescue boats 238. Lives saved by...
Category: Articles
A Picture Taken from the Bow of 70,001 When She Went to the Assistance of the Danish Ship Marilene on 24th January, 1967
A picture taken from the bow of 70,001 when she went to the assistance of the Danish ship Marilene on 24th January, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) a Dramatic View of Kaskelot As She Rolls Heavily In the Severe Conditions at 0700
(Left) A dramatic view of Kaskelot as she rolls heavily in the severe conditions at 0700. The lights of the tug Avon Goch are visible to her right. - View image in PDF
(Photo 2nd Mechanic John Payne, Moelfre lifeboat). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fourteenth Collecting Box to Be Put Before the Public In the Chertsey Area: This One Is at the Leisure Centre Thorpe Park and Was Unveiled By Rnli Chairman the Duke of Atholl (I) In the Pres
The fourteenth collecting box to be put before the public in the Chertsey area: this one is at the leisure centre, Thorpe Park, and was unveiled by RNLI chairman, the Duke of Atholl (I.) in the presence of Terry Cat/iff, director of Leisure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cuttle
RESERVE LIFE-BOAT Humber, Yorkshire. At 1.30 p.m. on 4th October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that the reserve life-boat The Cuttle had broken down in a slight sea and gentle southeasterly wind five miles north of...
The Pull Of The Lifeboat
The pull of the lifeboat Hannah Chittock tells how she came to join the RnLi ‘family’ When my husband Jon was a child, he and his friends would peer through the window of the old RnLi station in Lymington for a glimpse of the lifeboat and,...
Category: Articles