LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Kent at Hq
The RNLI President HRH The Duke of Kent visited Poole HQ and depot on 9 July and took the opportunity to inspect FAB 4, here in the company of Deputy Director Ray Kipling. Photo Evening Echo. Bournemouth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (5)
SEPT. 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A vessel had been reported with a bad list, which was thought to be the result of enemy action, and the life-boat put out in charge of the bowman, as both the coxswain and second coxswain were at sea fishing, but...
Below: Dunbar
Below: Launching restrictions mean that Dunbar's Trent class has to launch from the power station up the road but the old red sandstone boathouse is still home to the station's D class and crew facilities.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maryport
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND On the 9th October, 1940, the Maryport life-boat rescued the crew of four of the herring drifter Mourne Lass, of Workington.
COXSWAIN THOMAS Q. REAY was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..
Category: Medals
A Vessel (29)
AUGUST 16TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A vessel of over 5,000 tons had been mined at the mouth of the Humber, but all the survivors were picked up by armed trawlers. - Paid permanent crew..
An Aeroplane (27)
MARCH 1ST. - BUCKIE, AND WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A German aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew got ashore by rubber dinghy in the darkness, unseen by the life-boats. - Rewards : Buckie, £11 14s. ; Whitehills, £15...
Wind power in Shetland
The RNLI has installed its first station wind turbine, at Aith, Shetland – the charity’s most northerly lifeboat station. The turbine, a 20kW Westwind unit, was switched on in the Autumn of 2009 and should generate around 40,000kWh a...
Category: Articles
Graces, of Shields
On the 12th December the Thurso life-boat rescued the crew of 15 men from the barque Graces, of Shields, which was dragging her anchors in Thurso Bay, and had hoisted a signal of distress.
A £338 Cheque Is Handed to Cullercoats Honorary Secretary
A £338 cheque is handed to Cullercoats honorary secretary, Mr R. J. Taylor, by Mr E. Armstrong manager of the Bay Hotel. Between them stand Crew Members Raymond Taylor, David Blackman and Geoffrey Nugent who had helped raised some of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs