LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats In Action
Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.
The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
THE PERIOD of a little over a quarter of a century during which the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was the Institution's President, will almost certainly be looked back upon by future historians of the life-boat service as one of...
Category: Articles
During His Years As President of the RNLI the Prince of Wales Named Three Life-Boats the First Being at Yarmouth Isle of Wight'
by courtesy of London News Agency Photos Ltd. - View image in PDF
'During his years as President of the R.N.L.I., the Prince of Wales named three life-boats, the first being at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mumbles Lifeboat Memorial Window at All Saints Church Oystermouth Commemorating the Loss of the Eight Crew of the Lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales on Apr
The Mumbles Lifeboat Memorial Window at All Saints Church, Oystermouth, commemorating the loss of the eight crew of the lifeboat Edward, Prince of Wales on April 23, 1947, on service to ss Samtampa, was unveiled on May 6 by the Duke of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Not Enough Water to Use the Engine As Wet Tired Lifeboatmen Wade Through the Steels of the Flooded North Wales Towns
Not enough water to use the engine as wet, tired lifeboatmen wade through the steels of the flooded North Wales towns. (Photo The Guardian). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 143 station life-boats 101 inshore rescue boats 1 70-foot steel life-boat on operational trials 1 44-foot steel life-boat on evaluation trials at Barry Dock LIVES RESCUED 90,321 from the Institution's foundation in...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 86. Lives rescued 90., September Meeting.
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of...
Category: Services
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Dec 12,13,26, Feb 9,16,19,20 D-536:Dec 12,13,24,26(x2),Feb 20 ABERDOVEY B-758:Jan 30,Feb 19 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Dec21,Jan20,Feb26 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1245(14-29):Feb 19,20 AITH ON-1232(17-14):Jan21 ALDEBURGH D-520:Feb 13...
Category: Services
Wreck of the Same Vessel, Next Day
Wreck of the Same Vessel Next Day. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vikings Help on Aberdeen Life-Boat Day
Part of a procession which included Noah's Ark and Jonah's Whale.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs