LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two New Appointments
COLONEL J. T. Benn, O.B.E., has been appointed District Organising Secretary for the Midlands in place of Wing Commander E. J. Brooks, D.F.C., who recently resigned. Colonel Benn was commissioned from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,...
Category: Committee
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Four boys LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed Flint lifeboat station at 1225 on Sunday April 25, 1982, that four boys were stranded 500 yards off the shore in the River Dee. They had gone to fish from a bank off the Cob at Bagillt and had been cut...
Elaine
Humber, Yorkshire - At 9.20 a.m.
on 13th April, 1969, the coastguard reported that two red flares had been sighted off Donna Nook. The lifeboat City of Bradford HI was launched at 9.28 in a fresh north westerly wind with a...
Lifeboat Provides Inflatable and First Aid In Team Effort for Fallen Climber
Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew can be made out on the foreshore in this photograph providing first aid while a helicopter prepares to lift an injured climber to safety.
The lifeboat was on service on 14 May when the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
by Dave Trotter The launch of Padstow's Oakley class lifeboat featured in many RNLI publications and posters, but this is the scene brought up to date as 47-002, relief Tyne class Sam and Joan Woods, is launched during the summer of J988... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peel
PEEL, Isle of Man, Saturday February 1, 1986: the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat out on service in a moderate northerly breeze.
The fishing vessel Ranger had suffered gear-box failure just 100 yards off... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ben Glas
Nov. 30TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 5.49 P . M the coastguard reported red rockets and flares from a vessel bearing E.N.E. from Caister.
A W.S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor...
Phil-anthropic swim
EastEnders actor Steve McFadden, known to millions as Phil Mitchell, swam a mile across open water on 31 May to support the RNLI. He joined 38 other swimmers to cross the River Fal in Cornwall and finished in an impressive 46...
Category: Articles
A Small Rowing Boat
JUNE 9TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 8.15 in the evening a resident of Cwmyreglwys telephoned to the life-boat station that a small rowing boat, with a man and two women in it, was being blown out to sea. At nine...
Gratitude of Airmen.
Many of the launches of life-boats have been to the help of airmen.
When the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had been out to the rescue of a Hurricane fighter which had come down in the sea, the pilot's squadron...
Category: Articles