LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
90 years ago I wonder whether you would be interested in this photograph, taken on Lifeboat Day in Croydon in 1909, 90 years ago? My brother, aged 5 (left), and I, aged 4, carried the tin lifeboat collection boxes during a street parade on...
Category: Correspondence
People and Places
Crew members pick the cruisersPoole lifeboat crew drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's lifeboat lottery at Poole lifeboat station on 27 April 2001.
The 93rd draw raised £245,000 and top prize, a luxury Canaries...
Category: Articles
News and Views
N EWS P O I N T There coutd only be one topic for Newspoint in this issue - the remarkable service by the Lerwick lifeboat to Green Lily, which led to the award of the first Gold Medal for 16 years to her coxswain and a further five Bronze...
Category: Articles
September Three: Naming Ceremonies at Aberdeen Weymouth and Ramsgate
Aberdeen, Wednesday, September 8: Lowering skies, spatters of rain and a chill wind greeted guests invited to Aberdeen's Regent Quay for the naming ceremony of the station's new 54' Arun class lifeboat, BP Forties; but the...
Category: Inaugurations
Legacies Paid to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PAID TO THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION DURING THE TEN YEARS ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1890.
[Legaciet under £100 are omitted after having been publuhed twice in the Annual .Reports,] Amount...
Category: Donations
Letters
Letters...
Shoreline Service I read with interest the report on page 10 of the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT, concerning the beaching of the Prince Ivanhoe at Horton, off the Gower, South Wales. I was on holiday and happened...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services from Page 46
from page 46 yacht at 2006 and a lifeboatman was put on board. Six of the passengers were transferred to the lifeboat and the yacht taken in tow to Weymouth where the six were taken to hospital for a medical check.
The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Otter
Crew member leaps aboard casualty from C class inflatable Helmsman Peter Heading and Crew Member Robert Gorman of Aberystwyth lifeboat station have been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal for Gallantry following the rescue of a lone...
Japonica and a 60ft Sailing Vessel
Tyne's 26-hour service in storm force winds Coxswain Kieran Cotter of Baltimore's relief Tyne class lifeboat has received the RNLI's Bronze Medal for Gallantry following a 26-hour service to two separate casualties in winds up to...
Blackfriars
Pollution disaster prevented Thanks on Vellum awarded to St. Davids coxswain Another pollution incident on the Welsh coast was averted when the St Davids lifeboat pulled a stranded oil tanker off a beach in a Gale Force 9.SIn a long and...