LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guiding Star
The Life- boat Mary Isabella was launched at about 8.45 P.M. on the 28th January, in a moderate N.E. gale, in response to distress signals from a schooner about two and a half miles off the harbour.
She was riding at single...
Bookshelf
The History of the North Deal Walmer and Kingsdowne Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 (including post and packing)A new book by this prolific chronicler of lifeboats station histories - this time covering three...
Category: Articles
Award of Medals, Gratuities, Etc
THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instrumental in saving lives during the year 1854-5.
April 23,...
Category: Medals
Pride of Cahirciveen
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 5th of May, 1951, a telephone message was received from the post office that the motor fishing boat Pride of Cahireiveen, with a crew of four, was about eight hours overdue from the fishing...
Your Letters
Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
Category: Correspondence
Hastings Crew Were Out on Service In Reserve Lifeboat Jane Hay on September 27 1974 In a Force 10 Wind They Rescued Three Men from Fv Simon Peter; Jane Hay Is Seen
Hastings crew were out on service in reserve lifeboat Jane Hay on September 27, 1974. In a force 10 wind they rescued three men from FV Simon Peter; Jane Hay is seen here returning to the shelter of the harbour arm with the men... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Membership
embership Essential Information for readers The Lifeboat is the members' magazine of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and is published in January, April, July and October. The Lifeboat celebrates the core work of the RNLI - saving...
Category: Articles
Getting on for 30 Boats Took Part In Brighton Trawler Race Which Organised By the Trawlermen's Association on July 24 Raised £1000 for the Local Rnli Branch
Getting on for 30 boats took part in Brighton trawler race which, organised by the Trawlermen's Association on July 24, raised £1,000 for the local RNLI branch. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Daily Telegraph. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline
ONE SUNDAY in July I had the great pleasure of meeting lifeboatmen from Blyth, the station on the north east coast of England for which the Rother lifeboat being funded by the Shoreline appeal is destined. Motor Mechanic Colin Cutherbertson,...
Category: Articles
Medal for Rescue from Fishing Vessel
Coxswain Gordon Elliott of Padstow has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Deo Gratias on 23rd November, 1965. The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have...
Category: Services