LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat and a Catamaran
Committee boat A RACE had been organised for dinghies at Blackpool Light Craft Club off Squires Gate on Saturday afternoon, June 13, 1981, but it was cancelled because of rising wind and sea. All the dinghies came ashore unaided but the...
Boat Shows: London and Birmingham
London: Modern lifeboats formed the theme of the RNLI displays at the London International Boat Show at Earls Court from January 6 to 16. Although in a quiet area, our stand was, as always, the meeting place for many lifeboat friends old and...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Ecstasy and M.F.V. Broadside
Escort THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Southwold lifeboat station received a request at 1335 on Monday January 31, 1983, for the lifeboat to escort MFV Ecstasy and MFV Broadside to Lowestoft; the weather was too bad for the fishing vessels...
Morris Shefras and Sons Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Kingfisher, Lily and Three Brothers
COBLES ESCORTED IN NEAR GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the harbour master told the honorary secretary he felt anxious for the safety of the fishing cobles Kingfisher, Lily and Three Brothers,...
Stowmarket and Needham Market Branch
Suitable arrangements: just one of the 20 displays at the Festival of Howers organised by Stowmarket and Needham Market branch with the help of Aldeburgh, Southwold and Lowestoft lifeboat stations. The festival was a four-day event and as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Canoes and a Yacht
Awards for helmsman and crew members of Cleethorpes D class A service by Cleethorpes' D class inflatable in winds of up to storm Force 10 to five canoeists and a yacht has earned the helmsman, David Steenvoorden, the Institution's...
Liza, Scheherazade and Golden Venture
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Sena Sioria and Whisky Mac
Six survivors snatched from yacht in Force 9 gale and heavy seas A service to a 50ft yacht by St Peter Port's Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold in atrocious weather conditions resulted in media headlines throughout the country - and...
Scottish Divisional and Regional Staff
The new combined Scotland divisional base and regional office was officially opened on 7 March 2002 by HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI. The move was planned some two years ago when it was realised that both the existing premises... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs