LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tropacara
At 4.23 a.m. on 2oth June, 1967, it was reported that flares had been sighted north west of Cape Cornwall. The lifeboat Susan Ashley was launched at 4.45 in a moderate westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was shortly after high water. The life...
Ros Molt
At 10.40 a.m. on llth June, 1969, information was received that a fishing vessel was in difficulties at Loop head, County Clare. The lifeboat Rowland Watts slipped her moorings at 10.50. The tide was flooding. At 4.15 the life-boat came up...
Joint Second Coxswain William Clark - Bronze Medal
Joint Second Coxswain William Clark - Bronze Medal Lerwick lifeboat, 17/18 November 1993 William Clark took Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian alongside the Russian Factory Ship Borodinskoye Polye 35 times to rescue 37... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Floreat
MAY 17TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. Late at night it was learnt that the local fishing boat Floreat was three hours overdue.
Although the weather was fine the motor lifeboat John and William Mudie was launched at midnight to...
Next generation is born
Sea trials of the prototype Shannon class lifeboat are underway. She is pictured here proving her ability to selfright.
This new all-weather lifeboat class, due to go into service next year, will be powered by waterjets,...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
ITS WORK.
HPHE Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts of the United Kingdom: in paying...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1951
THE principal life-boat broadcast in 1951 was in November, when "The Life-boat Story" was told in a series Science and Life in the programme London Calling Asia. Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown, the secretary, Com-...
Category: Articles
National Life-Boat Institution. Services of Its Life-Boats During 1859
SERVICES OF ITS LIFE-BOATS DURING 1859.
FROM the annexed tabular statement it will be seen that during the year which has just ceased the life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have, at various points of...
Category: Services
A Steamer (2)
31st October. A steamer had stranded near the South Middle Haisborough Buoy, but she floated off again.—Rewards, £26 4*. 6d..
(C) Lifeboat Being Lifted
Photo (C) shows the lifeboat being lifted by a sea as she approaches Green Lily's port rail…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs