LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (140)
OCTOBER 7TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.10 P.M. information was received by telephone that a fighter aeroplane had crashed in the sea. A few minutes later one of the life-boatmen reported that he could see a small object on...
An Aeroplane (151)
OCTOBER 2ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing.- Rewards, £32 16s. 6d..
Five Years and Six Months of War
Since the war began our life-boats have rescued 6,272 lives. That is more lives rescued in five years and six months of war than in the last seventeen years of peace..
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (63)
JULY 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d..
Home shopping saves lives
The RNLI Sales mail order gift catalogue is back just in time for Christmas! Packed full of gift ideas, cards, hampers and decorative touches, you can prepare for the season ahead from the comfort of your home, while helping save lives at...
Category: Articles
Malcolm Gray
Many of the RNLI’s 19th-century barometers are still in perfect working order today. Malcolm Gray MBE, former Coxswain of St David’s lifeboat, records changes in theirs every morning before raising the RNLI flag - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Whitley Bomber
OCTOBER 24TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. A Whitley bomber had come down, but two of her crew were rescued from the shore and a search for the others was unsuccessful. - Rewards, £15 13s..
Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths: June Mr J. A. Clugston, who joined Port St Mary branch in 1958 and became chairman in 1966, retiring from this office due to ill health in 1970, when he became a...
Category: Obituaries
Victorian photographer’s art of glass
In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
Category: Articles
Eastern Morn
Barrow, Lancashire - At 11.15 p.m.
on 2 ist June, 1967, it was noted that a May-day message had been received from the motor fishing vessel Eastern Morn. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 11.38 in a west south...