LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launch! Newhaven's Housed Slipway 47' Watson Lifeboat Kathleen Mary Launched on Service 23 Times During 1976 Rescuing Eight Lives She Has Now Been Replaced B
Launch! Newhaven's housed slipway 47' Watson lifeboat Kathleen Mary launched on service 23 times during 1976, rescuing eight lives. She has now been replaced by the fast afloat 44' Waveney lifeboat Louis Marches!, gift of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat to the Rescue. By a Fisherman
THE night was dark and stormy, The sea rolled mountains high, When our coxswain came in haste, And thus did breathless cry : Make haste and launch the Life-boat, A vessel's on the rocks; Be quick and get all ready; Now overhaul these...
Category: Poetry
10 years on the beaches
The RNLI prides itself on a long lifesaving tradition but, in order to save more lives, it is alert to changes in how people use the sea
People still go to sea for a living. But by the year...
Category: Articles
The Training Brig James J. Bibby (1)
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—Shortly before 9 P.M. on the 12th August, a telephone message was received at New Brighton, stating that the training brig, James J.
Bibby, of Liverpool, was ashore on...
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1936
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools, has been held this year for the sixteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,175, a decrease on last year of 336.
Of this...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Membership News
Happy Anniversary The RNLI membership scheme celebrated its 20th anniversary on 2 January 1989 with a membership of 135,401. By 5 March, just two months later, this had increased by more than 4,000 to some 139,726, which is very good news...
Category: Articles
Sale Now On!
A look behind the scenes at RNLI (Sales), the company which raises funds for the lifeboat service, and is also responsible for perhaps the most visible of the RNLI's images - its gifts and souvenirsWeall knowabout RNLI (Sales) don't...
Category: Articles
Hertford and District Branch
Support the RNLI: A red London bus, Routemaster RM5, was lent to the Hertford and district branch as an entry in the Hertford Carnival.
The bus, which is about 25 years old, is the oldest in regular service (route number 29... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Speed Boat
Joint rescue saves water-skiersOn Saturday, 8 September 2001, three lifeboats, two helicopters and two cliff rescue teams were called out to rescue three people from a speedboat that had capsized in a notoriously dangerous area. The wind was...