LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Five Pile Drivers
At 1.30 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a whole N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, signals of distress were seen from five Pile Drivers which were moored in the River Humber. The Life-boat Charles Burton was launched and...
Naive, Salamander and Abigail
GALE SPRINGS UP DURING OCEAN RACE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 22nd June, 1962, the Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club's Outer Dowsing ocean race started with about sixteen yachts taking part. By three o'...
The power of the sea
Need some inspiration for your Summer reading list? Here’s a collection of books that celebrate the skills and endurance needed to master our planet’s expansive oceans
For adventurers
Across the Arctic Ocean –...
Category: Articles
A Day In the Life Of...
Jon Jones, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, looks at the work of George Rawlinson, Divisional Inspector {Dl) of lifeboats for the South .
The title 'inspector' had always caused me to form a mental image in...
Category: Articles
With the Little Ships at Dunkirk
Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...
Category: Articles
An unexpected catch
When six teenagers fished into the early hours of a Summer morning, they suddenly became caught themselves
The group, aged 14–16, began night fishing from disused oyster beds at the north end of Langstone Harbour,...
Category: Articles
The Work Boat Gille Brighde
Crew rescue man trapped in capsized fishing vessel James McPhee, the coxswain of Campbeltown lifeboat, has been awarded the Thanks of the RNLI inscribed on Vellum following a service to the work boat Gille Brighde, when she capsized on 29...
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Couple rescued from foot of cliffs Redcar lifeboat helmsman Peter Hodge has been awarded a Bronze Medal for the outstanding rescue of two walkers and a dog cut off by the tide on 19 January. The couple and dog were trapped atthe foot of high...
20,000th Shoreline Member Linda Catlin: Membership Was Part of Linda's 12Th Birthday Present from Her Parents
20,000f/i Shoreline member, Linda Catlin: membership was part of Linda's 12th birthday present from her parents.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: June, 1984 Robert John Gammon, motor mechanic of The Mumbles lifeboat from 1947 to 1971 after serving for three months as assistant motor mechanic. Mr Gammon was awarded the Royal...
Category: Obituaries