LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'The scariest situation I've ever been in'
As the evening approached at Aberavon Beach on the south Wales coast, the RNLI lifeguard team were packing up their kit – but their work was not over for the day …
Sun and sand had attracted...
Category: Articles
Vital Volunteers
It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...
Category: Articles
To Improve Communications for D Class Ilbs Ron Caldicott (/) Electronics Surveyor/ Maintenance and Pete Young Electronics Surveyor Have Produced a Portable
To improve communications for D class ILBs, Ron Caldicott (/.), electronics surveyor/ maintenance, and Pete Young, electronics surveyor, have produced a portable, waterproof and unsinkable version of the Pye Westminster VHP... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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With Summer around the corner, it may prove difficult to remember the frozen winter months, and as usual, the hardest hit by snow were Scotland and the North.
Sea transport showed its advantages in these conditions as RNLI...
The Duke Coming Ashore from the 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Arun at Barry Dock
The Duke coming ashore from the 52ft Arun lifeboat Arun at Barry Dock. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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AUGUST 20TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
A barrage balloon had gone adrift, but efforts to capture it were unsuccessful, and it was destroyed by fire from a patrol boat. - Rewards, £14 2s..
As Soon As News Was Received of the Missing Longhope Life-Boat a Watch Was Kept for Survivors Who Might Have Come Ashore. Here Police Officers Are Scanning the Turbule
As soon as news was received of the missing Longhope life-boat a watch was kept for survivors who might have come ashore. Here police officers are scanning the turbulent waves.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Stations of the Isle of Man By Joan Davies
VERY CLOSE TO THE SEA are people of the Isle of Man. Set in the Irish Sea almost equidistant between England and Ireland, with Scotland to the north and Wales to the south, not only is the island itself dependent on sea trade but is lies...
Category: Articles
Mr. John Prior, Deal
Mr. John Prior, of Deal, who died on 14th December last at the age of eighty-four, was for twenty-five years the secretary of one of the most im- portant life-boat stations on our coasts —the famous station at North...
Category: Obituaries