LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'We were in trouble ...'
When car ferry Princess Victoria sank in heavy seas off Northern Ireland on 31 January 1953, Billy McAllister was working onboard
Massive waves were pushing and hitting, sending her [Princess...
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A Grand Finale
RNLI crew members from Brighton, Littlehampton and Poole took part in two displays at the last ever Royal Tournament at Earls Court on 22 July.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Three sailors in a Life-boat, — one of whom is in the act of rescuing an exhausted mariner from the waves ; inscription, " Let not the deep swallow me up." THIS Medal appeal's to have been one of the chef d'osuvres of the...
Category: Medals
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned to say that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Oving- dean, and that her crew of two were clinging to her. At 6.35 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 2.—The 51-Feet Barnett (Stromness) Type
THE 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat is a modification of the 60-feet Barnett Motor Life-boat which was described in The Lifeboat for last February. She is nearly as fast as the larger type (only half a knot less), but she has not...
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Pish and Chase
At 3.30 p.m. on 19th August, 1969, while already at sea, a member of the crew of life-boat 44-001 on temporary duty at Sheerness saw a capsizeddinghy half a mile south west of Darnett Ness. There was a light wind with a slight sea. It was...
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.
VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Oboerst.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend.
" Royal National Life-boat Institution....
Category: Medals
A Firefly ircraft
St. Ives, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.— At 8.53 on the evening of the 24th of January, 1955, the St. Ives coastguard rang up the St. Ives life-boat station to say that a Firefly aircraft had crashed, and that men had been seen in a rubber...
A Cabin Cruiser
Cabin cruiser on bar THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Blyth lifeboat station was informed by Coastguard Tyne at 1440 on Sunday, August 29, 1976, that two swimmers had been swept out to sea off Cambois; a girl bather had been picked up by a...