LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat (2)
JULY 25TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A small rowing boat was drifting out with a boy in it, but before the life-boat arrived it was found by a motor boat. The boy was exhausted and, after he had been given water and chocolate from the life-boat, the...
The Admiralty Trawler Warwick Deeping
OCTOBER 11TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. The Admiralty trawler Warwick Deeping had sunk as a result of enemy action, but her crew of twenty-fire were rescued by two men in a motor boat and the life-boat was recalled by wireless.- Rewards,...
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Wells, Norfolk.—26th November, 1938.
A vessel had been reported in distress off the Lynn Well Light-vessel, but nothing could be found. She may have been a derelict drifter from which theSkegness life-boat had rescued the...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on page 98.
It is a photograph of the Aberystwyth life-boat launching in a gale, and...
Category: Advertisement
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a repro- duction in colour of the picture on this page. It is a photograph of the 45' 6" Penlee life-boat W.
and S....
Category: Advertisement
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - On 21st May, 1969, the reserve life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings to go to the help of a boy who had fallen over the cliff at Manorbier. A full account of...
Lifeboat Services September October and November 1980
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: September 8. 28, November 12 and 17 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: September 20 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: September 10, October 5 and November 5 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: October 8 and...
Category: Services
June 8 (Below) Her Royal Highness Had Been Shown the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable
Three days earlier, on June 8, (below) Her Royal Highness had been shown the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, donated by the Institute of London Underwriters on their centenary, at the Guildhall, London (see report on page 38 of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Capital Pier
The RNLI's busiest lifeboat station,Tower on the River Thames, has relocated to an historic new location - Lifeboat Pier. A former police station, the entire structure was towed away, rebuilt and returned to its mooring on the Embankment... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Station milestones
2010 is a big birthday year for a number of lifeboat stations around the UK and RoI. Humber, East Yorkshire (pictured), celebrates its 200th anniversary, while Donaghadee, Co Down, is 100 years old and Beaumaris, Anglesey, celebrates 100...
Category: Articles