LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats. Stromness, Longhope, Piel (Barrow), Swanage and Portrush
Lieutenant H.R.H. Prince George, K.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the two Motor Life-boats at Stromness and Longhope in the Orkneys on the 6th June.
These are the two most northerly Life-boat Stations in the British...
Category: Inaugurations
A Ketch and the Shrimper Marjorie
At about 10 A.M. on the 20th April, a ketch was seen to miss stays and run aground on Taylors Bank, and as the cone had just been hoisted denoting a gale might be expected, the Life-boat John andHenrietta was launched and proceeded to...
5 mountains, 2 days
Five crew members from Tower Lifeboat Station took on a gruelling challenge in June, climbing the highest mountains in each of the countries the RNLI serves – England (Scafell Pike), Scotland (Ben Nevis), Wales (Snowdon), Northern Ireland...
Category: Articles
Right: Oban's Trent Class Lifeboat Mora Edith Macdonald
T, Right: Oban's Trent class lifeboat Mora Edith MacDonald. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI In Action
RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Lost and listing Volunteer lifeboat crews from Falmouth and The Lizard joined the rescue... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lt Ron Smith, DSM KNVR
JUNE 1988: Lt Ron Smith, DSM KNVR, deputy launching authority at Ramsgate from 1971 to 1987.
AUGUST 1988:.
Category: Obituaries
An Auxiliary Naval Ketch,with a Cutter In Tow
DECEMBER 1 0TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.30 in the afternoon the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was taken out for exercise by the district inspector. The sea was choppy. After she had been at sea about half an hour she came...
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Washed off pier A MEMBER of Amble ILB crew, Keith Stuart, was on his way home at about 1715 on Friday August 19, 1977, when he heard a helicopter working in the area off the south pier. Bystanders were shouting that a boy was in the water....
A Yacht
Lone yachtsman saved by men from Morecambe lifeboat station The Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum have been awarded to three men from Morecambe lifeboat station following the rescue of a yachtsman who was...
Faith Star, Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Before daybreak on the 24th of November, 1955, the fishing boats Faith Star, Pilot Me and Success put to sea in worsening weather.
The Faith Star returned to harbourand at noon the no. 2 harbour pulling...