LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Margaret, Boy Don and Alsace Lorraine
APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1981
May, 1981 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: April 14 D class inflatable: April 7 and 13 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: May 3 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 19 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed Relief D class inflatable: March 1 D...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
'1974 —A YEAR OF TRIUMPH' — His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, President RNLITHE WORD WHICH SEEMS to have been most readily used by people describing the RNLI's annual general meeting in 1975 was 'moving'. On page 30 we...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 124. Lives rescued 106.
April Meeting.
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
—On the 23rd December, 1938, the Blyth motor life-boat rescued three of the crew of the s.s. Skaru...
Category: Services
Heart and home
Behind the scenes, a lifeboat station mechanic must be both meticulous and creative to keep the service running – and his fellows safe
Mark Blatcher is poring over wiring diagrams. He’s trying...
Category: Articles
Then And Now
tHen AnD noW State of the art When crowds gathered in Dover on 10 July 1930 to see the naming of a new 20m motor lifeboat, they were to witness an historic moment for the RnLi.
named Sir William Hillary after the founder of...
Category: Articles
Gentle Annie
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1956, the honorary secretary's son reported that the yacht Gentle Annie, of West Kirby, was flying distress signals in a danger- ous position off the north end of East Hoyle...
Rachel and Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 12th of December,1957, the coxswain saw that the weather was deteriorating and asked permission of the honorary secretary to launch the life-boat to escort two fishing cobles still at...
News and Views
John McCarthy presents RNLI video Journalist and broadcaster, John McCarthy, presents the new RNLI video which is being launched at the London International Boat Show at Earl's Court this month. John, embarked on a circumnavigation of...
Category: Articles
The Machinery Is Completely Water-Tight and the Tractor Can Be Submerged Up to the Top of the Air-Intake and Exhaust Pipes, and the Driver's Neck
The Machinery Is Completely Water-Tight and The Tractor Can Be Submerged Up To The Top of the Air-Intake and Exhaust Pipes and The Driver's Neck This Stern View Shows The Capstan By W. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs