LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Filter by

You can search by year, volume, issue and/or content type.
Year:
Add a to date (optional)
Volume:
Add a to volume (optional)
Issue:
Add a to issue (optional)
Type of content:
You can search by vessel, date and/or lifeboat station.
Service date:
Add a to date (optional)
Clear all filters
42412 search results for 'The+S.S.+Chant+63'
List view Card view

Top Drawer:

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

Top drawer: Mike Peyton has published another book of his famous cartoons casting humourous light on yachting predicaments. Out of Our Depth (Nautical Books, £5.95) will touch a few raw nerves as well as causing plenty of chuckles. Mike...

Category: Drawings

Boat Bug

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

This photograph shows Silloth's Atlantic 21, at speed in the Solway Firth and apparently about to be attacked by a U.F.I. (Unidentified Flying Insect!).

Unbeknown to photographer.

Jimmy Graham, the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Charity Fund

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

Larry Lamberton (right), Whitstable lifeboat station honorary secretary and crew member Nick Dawkins (centre) recently received a cheque for £500 from Ian Pearson, manager of Brett Asphalt.

Last year the company set up... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Whitstable October 27 1987:

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

WHITSTABLE, October 27, 1987: the station's Atlantic 21 shepherds the yacht Porta Coeli into harbour after she had fired distress flares, drifting near the Spaniard buoy. She had suffered engine failure and her lone occupant had been in... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

If Only They Were All This Easy to Launch

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

'If only they were all this easy to launch...' RNLI staff watch the launch of one of the scale models of a proposed new lifeboat design at the Institution's Poole HQ in March. Pictured are (from left to right behind model): Lt... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Yak Paddling Challenge

Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

Another challenge - another environment - another first. This challenge is to be the first to solo circumnavigate the UK and Ireland by sea kayak. In total it will be over 4,950 miles, taking around 26 weeks to complete. The ambitious... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Small Boat

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

FEBRUARY 10TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

A small boat had been reported in difficulties off Kessingland, but nothing could be found. Before the call a vessel had collided with the south pier at Lowestoft and had dislodged a...

A Liberator Aeroplane (1)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

MAY 17TH. - MONTROSE, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. A vessel had been reported on fire. It was a Liberator aeroplane which had crashed in the sea. A naval launch arrived first and picked up two bodies. The Arbroath life-boat did not launch, but her...

Three Aeroplanes

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

AUGUST 21ST. - ABERYSTWYTH , CARDIGANSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. While the life-boat was searching, another aeroplane was reported in the sea, and a third in distress, and a motor boat was...

Sale Now On!

Date: Summer 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 537

A look behind the scenes at RNLI (Sales), the company which raises funds for the lifeboat service, and is also responsible for perhaps the most visible of the RNLI's images - its gifts and souvenirsWeall knowabout RNLI (Sales) don't...

Category: Articles