LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vanessa
Sheringham, Norfolk.—-At six o'clock on the evening of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that a yacht was in need of help a quarter of a mile south-east of Sheringham.
At 6.22 the life-boat Foresters Cen-...
PICTURE FOR BRANCH
The Swanage branch of the R.N.L.I. has been presented with a large coloured print of David Cobb's painting of the scene off Anvil Point on 22nd October, 1966, when a Norwegian freighter, with survivors from a yacht, met the Swanage...
Category: Branches
Whitstable October 27 1987:
WHITSTABLE, October 27, 1987: the station's Atlantic 21 shepherds the yacht Porta Coeli into harbour after she had fired distress flares, drifting near the Spaniard buoy. She had suffered engine failure and her lone occupant had been in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Machinery Is Completely Water-Tight and the Tractor Can Be Submerged Up to the Top of the Air-Intake and Exhaust Pipes, and the Driver's Neck
The Machinery Is Completely Water-Tight and The Tractor Can Be Submerged Up To The Top of the Air-Intake and Exhaust Pipes and The Driver's Neck This Stern View Shows The Capstan By W. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
WINDOWS INTO THE PAST
A stunning collection of glass plate negatives brings the RNLI’s lifesaving history into a new light
The RNLI’s Heritage Team are always on the look-out for artefacts and materials that document the lifesaving work of the...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Band
This Amateur Orchestra, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien, of Altrincham, Manchester, and their eight sons, id the Institution on many occasions at dances and garden parties. Mr. O' Brien has also been for has helped jy pa several... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ben My Chree
JUNE 25TH. - HARTLEPOOL, CO. DURHAM.
At 2.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the motor coble Ben My Chree, with two men on board, was then two and a half miles N.E. of Heugh.
With a...
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1907
Jan. 10.—Voted the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and framed, and 11.10s. each to five men, one of whom was the Coxswain of the Poole Life-boat, for rescuing at great personal risk .one of two men whose boat was capsized on...
Category: Articles
Be Happy
Mersey saves five despite loss of one engine When the remnants of Hurricane Lili swept up the Channel on 28 October it not only caused considerable damage ashore but also caught out a 90ft modern yacht, well-found and fitted with modern...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Crail, Fifeshire.—The trawler Jane Rosst, of Aberdeen, struck the Harvey Rocfe off Crail, while bound in ballast...
Category: Services