LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Happy birthday, Frammy!
A former Whitby crew member recently celebrated his 90th birthday. He served on the lifeboat from 1951 to 1975. Ronnie Frampton, known...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the "Endeavour."
ON the 6th of May last a small schooner, the Endeavour, of Ipswich, was driven on shore in Polkerris Bay, about one mile north-west of Fowey, on the south coast of Cornwall. As soon as her perilous situa- tion was observed, the Coast-guard...
Category: Services
Main Picture Other Page - the Volunteers Moor Up
Main picture other page - The volunteers moor up and grab a quick break before moving out again. Inset - Ian Canavan and Aguinaldo Namburete take a D class up the flooded river. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Rnli Float Carrying a 21' Atlantic Ilb at the Lord Mayor's Show on November 10 the Theme Was 'The Year of the Life-Boat' By Courtesy of Keystone
The RNLI float carrying a 21' Atlantic ILB at the Lord Mayor's Show on November 10. The theme was 'The Year of the Life-boat'. by courtesy of Keystone. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Minesweeper M.L.P. 2593
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 1.27 early on the morning of the 30th of July, 1956, the Senior Naval Officer, Northern Ireland, asked if the life-boat would stand by a motor minesweeper which had hove to in bad weather three miles...
The Austrian Brig, Tregiste
On the 14th Nov. the Austrian brig, Tregiste, 333 tons, of Trieste, anchored for shelter, during a terrific gale from the east, under Lambay Island, near Dublin.
On the 15th she had dragged her anchors nearly half way...
The Sailing Boat Seagull
Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— On the afternoon of 16th September, 1938, the coastguard reported that he had seen the sailing boat Sea-gull, of Lowestoft, capsize about three miles south of the harbour entrance. A fresh south breeze...
The War Record.
From the beginning of the war up to to-day the life-boats of the Institution have rescued 3840 lives. They have rescued more lives in just over twenty-two months of war than in the last ten years of peace. They have rescued 40 lives a week,...
Category: Articles
The RIB: The Rigid-hulled Inflatable Lifeboat
The RIB:
The Rigid-hulled Inflatable
Lifeboat
by David Sutcliffe
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This is the unusual record of a very special college created from the vision of...
Category: Articles
Can You Identify This Lifeboat, the Location, Or Even the Date?
Can you identify this lifeboat, the location, or even the date? The photos were found recently with no identifying details and the lifeboat's name cannot be read from the prints.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs