LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

While the prototype FAB 3 was paying a visit to Castletown Harbour on the Isle of Man in August the event was marked by the presentation of two cheques to the RNLI.

Stephen Foulkes (right in the picture) presented £500... - View image in PDF

Walton and Frinton lifeboat makes the Christmas run out to Sunk Lightvessel on the Sunday before Christmas, taking fare provided mainly by local shopkeepers. In 1978 (left, above) Robin Davis, chairman of East Ham Round Table which funded... - View image in PDF

ON the evening of the 30th of August, 1948, two young Americans were swimming and wading round Baggy Point in North Devon. One of them was the son of Mr. Negley Farson, the author, the other was a photographer on the staff of the American...

The RNLI first issued protective helmets to their Waveney class lifeboat crews in the 1960's At some four knots faster than the older classes of 8 or 9 knot double-ended lifeboats, some concern was expressed about crew members'...

NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. At nine o’clock on the night of the 5th of July, 1946, the Margate coastguard asked a local boatman to go to the help of the fishing boat Barbie, which appeared to be drifting seawards. A light south-west...

Sixty years ago, when HM The Queen succeeded her father, she became the eighth sovereign to take on the role of RNLI Patron. For nearly 200 years, successive kings, queens and consorts have acted as figurehead for the...

Portrait of a lifeboat station WELLS the crew and those who back them up ashore by Campbell MacCallum 1 Coxswain David Cox 2 Second Coxswain Anthony Jordan 3 Offshore lifeboat crew 4 Lt David Case RNVR, station honorary secretary 5 Mrs David... - View image in PDF

Oslo is an ideal setting for a gathering of life-boats. The city lies at the head of a long narrow fjord with moderately high land on either side. There is no slum area and the quays are only a few minutes walk from the centre of the town....