LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer
19th October. A steamer had lost her propeller, but a trawler took her in tow and tugs went to her help.—Rewards, £20 Is..
A Tanker
The Lizard, Cornwall.—10th February.
A tanker had been reported drifting, but was picked up by a tug.—Rewards, £10 3s..
A Coble
Whitby, Yorkshire. — 16th March, 1939. A coble had made a signal for help, but she was taken in tow by another coble.—Rewards, £3 6s..
Model new crew member
Aberdovey’s newest crew member, Steve Bowen (18), has been following the family’s RNLI tradition since he was 2 years old.
Steve was the star of a UK-wide RNLI advertising campaign in 1992. His father Dave, who was on the...
Category: Articles
A Russian Seaman Took This Photograph As the Duchess of Kent Lifeboat (Arrowed) Was Overturned By a Huge Wave. on the Right the Only Survivor—Mr. Jackson Buchan—Is Shown Landing from Th
A Russian seaman took this photograph as the Duchess of Kent lifeboat (arrowed) was overturned by a huge wave. On the right the only survivor—Mr. Jackson Buchan—is shown landing from the Buckle lifeboat after being picked up by a Russian... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Iron Ship Loch Shiel
ANGLE, MILFORD HAVEN.— The fullrigged iron ship Loch Shiel, of and from Glasgow, bound for Adelaide and Melbourne, with a general cargo of about 1,600 tons, stranded on Thorn Island, at the entrance to Milford Haven, in a heavy sea on the...
Khaki
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 1.0 on the afternoon of the 16th of May, 1951, the life-boat shore attendant told the coast- guard that a boat in Pegwell Bay was making a signal. She had apparently anchored near the breakers. The coast- guard passed...
On 6Th April,1970, Captain Carlos Carreira and Captain Rogerio Pinto of the Portuguese Life-Boat Society,
On 6th April,1970, Captain Carlos Carreira and Captain Rogerio Pinto of the Portuguese Life-boat Society, in the course of a visit to R.N.L.I. establishments, called at Life-boat House, London. Here they are being shown a painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Story of a Goose
ON Sunday morning, 8th February, the Ramsey Life-boat went out to a ketch which was seen to be flying signals of distress a little way outside the harbour.
A strong breeze was blowing, but the sea was smooth and the...
Category: Articles
Foreign Lifeboat Services. I
WE have, for some years past, noted from time to time the progress of the Life-boat Organizations in other coun- tries which have established a Service of this character, whether under the State or, as in our case, on a voluntary basis. In...
Category: Services