LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
What's it like to volunteer at our most northerly station, Aith, on the Shetland Islands? On 20 June, Photographer Jack Lowe of the Lifeboat Station Project made the most of the midsummer light, while the crew spoke about life at 60°...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1890
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 15th day of March, 1890, His Grace The DUKE OF FIFE, K.T., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
Reward Returned
Two men serving in the merchant navy took the places of two absent men in the Maryport life-boat when she put out in a gale to search for an aeroplane. They were given the same rewards as the life-boatmen, nineteen shillings each. One of...
Category: Articles
Annarchy
In storm force winds and darkness, the yacht Annarchy had engine problems and was steering an erratic course. The Moelfre crew had to manoeuvre the lifeboat close enough to the yacht for Rod Pace to jump aboard and regain control of the...
Scrivens
"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf' says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...
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EVER READY
Out for an evening walk with his children on 13 March, training, experience and teamwork helped an off-duty lifeboat helm save a life
Brian Niland had had a busy day. After finishing work as a medical rep, he’d picked his...
Category: Articles
Father and Grandfathers (Seated I to R) George 'Wener' Tart (George Tart's Father) Jack Brignall Alfred Tart John Pope Charles Williams Douglas Oilier (Doris' Fath
Father and grandfathers . . . (seated, I. to r.) George 'Wener' Tart (George Tart's father), Jjck Brignall, Alfred Tart, John Pope, Charles Williams, Douglas Oilier (Doris' father); (standing, front row, I. to r.) Charles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Burton-On-Trent September 27 1986:
Burton-on-Trent, September 27, 1986: specially brewed commemorative beer was the unusual souvenir item on sale when Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat. Burton Brewer, was handed over to the station in Burton-on-Trent. The Midlands... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Institution and the City of London
A PUBLIC meeting in furtherance of the objects of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th June last, in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House, by the special invitation of the Eight Hon. the LORD...
Category: Articles
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D class lifeboats help nearly 600 people to safety from floodingThe sterling efforts of the crews of three North Wales lifeboats during the severe flooding which hit the area in late February 1990 have earned the stations special...