LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (16)
DECEMBER 25TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A yacht had run aground, but her crew scrambled ashore without help. - Rewards, £12 16s..
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1936.
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64 12 0 _MHK_M _M_ _M_M_K Construction, Re- pairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats and Life-boat...
Category: Accounts
A Dinghy (2)
FUEL SHORT Selsey, Sussex. At 12 noon on 29th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had capsized off Aldwick Bay Estate. There was a strong north-easterly breeze and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. A...
Fraserhurgh: When a Job Needs Doing By Georgette Purches
THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
Category: Articles
A Hard Shoulder to Lean On.
A hard shoulder to lean on.
Motorists on the M25 had something to distract them from the inevitable traffic jams in July when the ex- Courtmacsherry Solent class lifeboat R.
Hope Roberts made a passage to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Fishing Cobles (1)
A sudden gale from the S. sprung up at this place on the 30th December, and during its height three fishing cobles were observed in distress. The life-boat Joseph Anstice went out, and having got the boats in as safe a position as possible,...
Coxswain Michael Scales St.Peter Port
Coxswain Michael Scales, St Peter Port On October 11, 1983, Coxswain Scales rescued seven people aboard the yacht Wild Rocket in a force 8 west-north-westerly gale. He succeeded in manoeuvring the Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold close... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A design for lifesaving
For decades, brave volunteers launched their Watson class
lifeboats to the rescue. Now the blueprint for a wellloved lifeboat that saved many lives has inspired a new RNLI Shop range. Celebrate our lifeboat heritage in style with...
Category: Articles
Nick Botham
Nick Botham Helmsman of Whitby's D Class inflatable during a service in heavy breaking seas to the yacht Cymba, for which he was awarded the Institution's Bronze medal.
Whitby's Waveney class lifeboat also took... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs