LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barendrecht
JANUARY 16TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 11.15 on the night of the 15th of January the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Steenhead. She was the Dutch tanker Barendrecht, a vessel of several thousand tons, bound for the Clyde....
The Aberdeen Life-Boat's Journey to Her Station
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Importer of Life-boats.
THIS Life-boat left Cowes for her station on Saturday, 22nd October last. She is a sister boat to the new Plymouth Life-boat described in the last...
Category: Articles
An American Thunderjet Fighter (1)
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
The Torbay Devon Life-Boat Arriving at Brixham on 9Th July 1968 With 126 Holidaymakers Rescued
The Torbay, Devon, life-boat arriving at Brixham on 9th July, 1968, with 126 holidaymakers rescued from the Torquay to Brixham ferry, Western Lady, which ran aground in thick fog.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boatman
Blind eyes turn towards the sea, And through a mist of age and time A tiny speck which once a flame Pleads to answer loud maroons Which call 'Distress'. Gnarled hands, Hard as oak, shake, yet once threw Lines, and pulled an oar to...
Category: Poetry
An Aeroplane (142)
OCTOBER 22ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 2.57 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in the sea S.E. of the Fairlight Coastguard Station A light E.S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea...
Launch of Courage on our Coasts
The work of award-winning photographer Nigel Millard is to be showcased in a new book and exhibition for the RNLI. Nigel is a volunteer crew member at Torbay Lifeboat Station and for the last 2 years he has dedicated his professional life to...
Category: Articles
Major-General R H Farrant Cb Chairman of the Institution
In a lifetime of sailing and the sea, participation and service have gone hand in hand.7 have always been interested in boats that would go faster than their wave length speed . . .'FOR MAJOR-GENERAL RALPH FARRANT a constant search for...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (26)
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
Friends of the RNLI: The Lifeboat Fund
Civil servants around the UK are celebrating 150 years of fundraising for the RNLI. And they’re doing so in style, having funded their 53rd lifeboat: a brand new Shannon class due to be built for Wells, Norfolk, in 2021. The Lifeboat Fund is...
Category: Articles