LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coromandel
19-hour service Dunbar lifeboat was involved in a 19-hour struggle to recover the stricken vessel Coromandel after it became stranded 25 miles east of Eyemouth in Berwickshire. The lifeboat crew endured conditions so rough that one member...
A Naval Lynx Helicopter
Helicopter tragedy A Naval Lynx helicopter, taking part in a search and rescue operation off Lizard Point in Cornwall, disappeared on 9 December 2004. The search involved various German, French and British Naval vessels and Falmouth lifeboat...
A Steamer (11)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
A steamer had been torpedoed, and one of her boats with fifteen survivors in it was reported drifting two miles north of Loophead.
The life-boat could not find them, and...
A British Steamer
DEC. 4TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A British steamer had been sunk by enemy action ten miles east of Withernsea, but when the life-boat arrived she found no one on board, and it was thought that the crew had been rescued by...
A Steamer (4)
JANUARY 26TH.. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, E S S E X . A s t e a m e r h a d b e e n r e p o r t e d ashore, but before the life-boat could reach her a signal was received that the steamer had refloated. When the life-boat returned she was one...
All creatures great and small
Ever since the days of horse-drawn launches, the RNLI has been great friends with the animal kingdom. Lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved dogs, cats, sheep, cows, horses, deer and dolphins.
Although the RNLI’s...
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BIENVENUE!
Eastbourne’s Mersey class lifeboat Royal Thames was launched on 22 August to help the crew of a yacht that had suffered mechanical failure.
Lifeboat crew members are pictured onboard the yacht setting up a tow. The yacht’s...
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Collecting In Gas Masks.
The flag day at Wigan was held on a day when there was a gas exercise, and at Bristol when there was a mock invasion. Collectors and contributors were all wearing their gas masks. It made no difference. Wigan collected £324, a record...
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A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane (1)
NOVEMBER 8TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
A British Wellington bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and it was learned later that four airmen had got ashore during the darkness in their rubber...
Wanted: arty kids
Do you know any children who love being creative? Get your child to design a Christmas card based on one of these themes – The Rescue, Coastal Christmas or Christmas for the Crew – and it could be featured in the RNLIshop range. Four winners...
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