LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rescue—Described By the Rescued. The Yacht Gull and the Shoreham Harbour Life-Boat
ON the 8th of August of last year the Shoreham Harbour Life-boat went out in a strong south-westerly gale to a yacht which could be seen three miles out at sea, and pursued her for twelve miles along the coast as she drove before the gale....
Category: Services
People and Places
Around and about the RNLI Youngest crew member? Jonathan Foster achieved a long-held ambition when he joined the crew of Staithes lifeboat - the Atlantic 21 Ellis Sinclair-on his 17th birthday .
Clem James, station honorary...
Category: Articles
Lans in the grip of the sea: as she lay aground under the cliffs of Hoy her crew of nine were lifted by helicopter to Longhope lifeboat.
Lans in the grip of the sea: as she lay aground under the cliffs of Hoy her crew of nine were lifted by helicopter to Longhope lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Statistics to believe in
As the Lifeboat went to print, RNLI rescue data for 2008 were announced.
Every one of the charity’s lifeboat stations and lifeguard units routinely reports its operational activities to Headquarters, where the Service...
Category: Articles
Each Year the 420 Pupils of Knowle Church of England Junior School Organise a Charity Lent Project
Each year the 420 pupils of Knowle Church of England Junior School organise a charity Lent Project, and this year they raised £783 for the RNLl. First year pupils ran a bring and buy stall; the second year a sponsored spell; the third... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Where is your hat?! I have been an RNLI Shoreline member for around 24 years.
I joined after chatting to a lifeboat crew member whilst on holiday in North Wales. He told me of an incident where a young boy had got into...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat launches on service during the months December 1972, January and February, 1973
Appledore, North Devon December 5.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow January 19 and February 25.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 14, 17 and 21.
Ballycotton, Co. Cork December 4, 5, January 6 and...
Category: Services
July (1)
RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
Category: Services
Notes and News. By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution
THERE are many matters, both in con- I nexion with the work of the Stations and of the Financial Branches, which I should '• be glad to discuss with Life-boat workers, and which they, no doubt, would like to ' discuss among ...
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FEBRUARY 6TH. - NEWHAVEN , SUSSEX. Heavy explosions had been heard about two miles south-east of Newhaven, but they were found to have been caused by the destruction of mines. - Rewards, £9 15s. 6d.