LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Krypton-Ites
Over 160 people tackled the famous assault course of television's The Krypton Factor on 1 June 1996 to raise funds for the RNLI. The course, situated at Holcombe Moor Training Centre near Bury, is not open to the public but is made... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Erillus
OCT. 14TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
The coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore on the Smithic Sands. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was...
Southend-on-Sea
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX On the 6th December, 1940, the Southend-on-Sea life-boat rescued eight men.
the crews of the barges Cambria, Decima, Glencoe, and Nelson.
COXSWAIN SIDNEY H. B. PAGE was awarded the...
Category: Medals
Birthday honours
Many of the emergencies that our London lifeboat crews are called to involve immediate risk of drowning, so their 40-knot E class lifeboats are essential.
Now an RNLI engineer has been recognised with an MBE for her role...
Category: Articles
77-year-old paperboy still delivers
Paper rounds have traditionally been carried out by children and young people – but 77-year-old David Rickard from Devon doesn’t let that stop him. Since 2006, the pensioner paperboy has been donating all of his wages and tips to good causes...
Category: Articles
Pamelia June
The No. 2 motor life-boat William and Kate John- ston put out at 11.15 A.M. on the 17th November as it had been reported that a boat was in difficulties abreast of Leasowe Castle. A very strong N.E.
breeze was blowing, with...
Paragon
NEAR LIGHTVESSEL Cloughey, Co. Down. At 2.25 p.m.
on loth December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Paragon was drifting near South Rock lightvessel with her engines broken down. The...
An R.A.F. Rescue Launch
DECEMBER 29TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 11.45 A.M. a telephone message was received from the naval authorities asking for the life-boat to stand by, as an R.A.F. rescue launch had gone to sea and found the weather too heavy...
Stresze
All in a day's work...
Eastbourne crew's first aid examination was interrupted on 1 August by an urgent message over the VHP radio from the Dutch yacht Stresze. requesting medical assistance some ten miles SE of...
Notus
Norwegian yacht aground IN THE EARLY HOURS of Saturday, June 20, 1987, Ramsgate's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Ralph and Joy Swann launched in response to a message from Dover Coastguard MRCC that red flares and a MAYDAY signal had been...