LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The call of the sea
On 14 May 2007, yachtsman and powerboater Geoff Holt was leaving the Hamble river in Hampshire in his aptly named trimaran Freethinker. After months of planning, he had begun the public phase of climbing his ‘personal Everest’ – being the...
Category: Articles
ROPE TRICKS
With a yacht pinned to rocks in 60mph winds and driving rain, Tobermory lifeboat crew would need to quickly overcome some hurdles to save the four people onboard
The 2018 summer heatwave took a dramatic turn at the end of...
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Divers Do It Overland
In July seven members of Aylesbury Green Park sub-aqua club completed a two-day bike ride and raised over £965 - half of which was donated to the lifeboats.
The event was a joint fundraising effort between the diving... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lifeboat Service— Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following two items were first published in THE LIFEBOAT of February, 1935.
Stories of a Life-boat Day.
ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, has the distinction of the help of many of its ex-mayors...
Category: Articles
Holders of Lloyd's Medals
Cambridge, I May 1852.
SIR,—In the narrative of the lamentable wreck of the New Commercial at the Bris- sons, Cornwall, given in the April number of the Life-Boat Journal, it is stated by mis- take that I am the " only...
Category: Articles
Our Coast Heroes
THE following account of the rescue of the crew and passengers of a shipwreck like that of the steam-ship Stanley, off Tynemouth, on the fearful night of the 24th November last, is taken from an admirable and most interesting little volume,...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1895
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 23rd day of March, 1895, THE EIGHT EON.
LORD TWEEDMOUTH, Lord Privy Seal...
Category: Annual Reports
Medallists of 1976: (I to R Back Row First) Joseph Jordan Frank Hendy Alan Blair Ronald Hardy Victor Marsh Glyn Roberts Stephen Whittle Thomas Knott Charle
Medallists of 1976: (I. to r., back row first) Joseph Jordan, Frank Hendy, Alan Blair, Ronald Hardy, Victor Marsh, Glyn Roberts, Stephen Whittle, Thomas Knott, Charles Begg, Peter King, Christopher Smith, John Street, Richard Robinson,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hazel, of Portrush
JANUARY 17TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At 4.51 in the afternoon information was received that the fishing boat Hazel, of Portrush, had not returned from sea, and the motor life-boat T.B.B.H. was launched at 5.15 to search...