LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
50 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of November 1918 The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition Early this year the late Duke of Northumberland, the then President of the Institution, placed at its disposal the sum of £100, to...
Category: Articles
Salty sea dog
13 October 2011: Mallaig lifeboat crew rescued a family of four people and two dogs from a tidal island, after their dinghy had drifted away. One four-legged family member really enjoyed his trip on the Severn’s...
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In at the deep end
What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...
'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...
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The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards were held once again on London's South Bank on Tuesday 10 May 1994. Once again both meetings attracted a large and interested assembly to hear of the Institution's work...
Category: Meetings
Loss of Life on the East Coast of Scotland
ANOTHER of those terrible visitations which have so frequently of late years befallen the fishing population on the east coast of Scotland, has again occurred, by which calamity no less than 44 men, mostly in the prime of life, have lost...
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Youghals Atlantic 21 In Full Cry
Youghals Atlantic 21 In Full Cry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Hayling Island Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
The Hayling Island Atlantic 21 lifeboat - an easy boat to manhandle if necessary should she run aground when working in the shallow waters of the harbours in the area.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yacht Ilona
The Life-boat William Erie was called in a moderate N.E. wind but thick fog, soon after midnight on the 26—27th January, by a telephone message, which reported a steamer was ashore at St. Alban's Head.
The vessel proved...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM G. SANDERS, on his retirement, after serving for 36J years as Coxswain of the Torbay Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certi- ficate of Service, and a Pension.
To THOMAS HAYES, on his retirement, after serving for 19 J...
Category: Awards
The Auxiliary Gaff Yawl Duet
MAINMAST SNAPS IN TALL SHIPS RACE St. Peter Port, Guernsey. On the 14th August, 1962, the 50-foot auxiliary gaff yawl Duet had been taking part in the Tall Ships Race and was about twentyfive miles off the west coast of Guernsey on the way...