LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swanage - D Class Phyl Clare 2 and New Inshore Lifeboat House
Mrs Phyl Cleare stands alongside Swanage's new D class lifeboat during the naming ceremony for the lifeboat. A previous D class funded by Mrs Cleare is in the relief fleet and had conducted trials at the station prior to the allocation... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dunmore East
DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD On the 28th February, 1941, the Dunmore East life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the motor trawler Ibis.
SECOND COXSWAIN PATRICK POWER was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescue boats during 1944 During the year life-boats were launched 455 times. Of these launches 280 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...
Category: Services
Medallists
Mr Robin Knox- Johnson, the Atlantic sailor, who is a member of the Committee of Management of the RNLI, declared at the annual meeting: 7 think we should remember their families who stay behind while they go out and risk their lives'.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Mattress (1)
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a girl had drifted out to sea on a rubber mattress four and a half miles south of Berwick. At...
Ranzo
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1957, the Wallasey police telephoned to say a yacht was in difficulties in the Rock Channel opposite the coastguard look-out post. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett put...
Clare
Life-boat 70-001 - Off The Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 2.17 p.m.
on 28th June, 1966, a dinghy was reported in difficulties in Forth Eynon bay, and The Mumbles IRB had been launched.
The life-boat Charles...
Suandra (1)
Fire HM COASTGUARD INFORMED the honorary secretary of Cardigan ILB station at 1224 on Wednesday, June 16, that a vessel was on fire four miles north of Cardigan Head. There was moderate visibility and a light westerly...
Fishing Boats (7)
OCT. 26TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
A whole N.E. by N. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea in Eyemouth Bay. Four local fishing boats were waiting to enter the port. The motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was...
Bridget Carmel
Half the power- but thiejob's still donenile some RNLI's services are carried out in extreme weather conditions the majority ' are more 'rotifine' but still require proven and reliable equipment in addition to a high...