LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Goodbye and Good Luck Dave!
Goodbye and good luck Dave! Retiring Port Talbot station honorary secretary, Dave Aubrey (pictured left) hands the reins over to his successor Robert Harris. Dave has served the Institution for over 30 years, 24 of them as station honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rowing Raisers
No apologies for featuring RNLI fundraisers the Hythe Hookers again - these ladies are always seen to be up to something intriguing! On New Year's Day they dressed up as cops and robbers and took part in the annual Maldon little ship... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Liner Calypso (1)
Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
The Liner Calypso (2)
Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
Foresters 135 Challenge
The Foresters society celebrates its 135th year in 2009, and has chosen to support the RNLI, setting a fundraising target of £135,000.
Foresters provides financial products like insurance policies and savings plans...
Category: Articles
Gifts from Crews
ON the 4th February, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat helped to save the steam trawler Cyclone, of Boulogne, and rescue her crew, sixteen in number. Out of the salvage money received for their services the Crew have given the Institution...
Category: Donations
Parliamentary Question on Helicopters
IN the House of Commons on the 14th of March, 1956, Mr. S. S. Awbery, M.P., for Bristol Central, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Avia- tion how many attempts had been made by helicopter to assist ship- wrecked seamen; how many...
Category: Articles
Seven Brothers
Dur- ing snowstorms and very cold weather, on the morning of the 16th January, signals of distress were observed off Benar Point, the Life-boat crew were immediately assembled and the Life-boat Oldham proceeded to the vessel, which proved to...
Renown
At 11.30 A.M.
on the 21st February the steam drifter Renown, of Yarmouth, with a crew of nine hands, was making for Penzance Pier, in a fresh breeze and rough sea, when she took the ground about a cable's length from...
Helen, of Stornoway
'On the 31st August the sloop Helen, of Stornoway, bound from Cullen to the Moray Firth, was obliged to come to an anchor, during a gale at N.W., in the bay to the east of the small fishing harbour of Lossiemouth.
In...