LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in June were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 7 p.m. on 27th June, 1966, a dinghy was reported adrift half a mile to seaward of Skipsea.
The IRB was...
Category: Services
Sitting Pretty
MFl Homeworks stores on the south coast joined forces to help the RNLI with a donation of furniture worth £900. Poole lifeboat crew members were delighted to receive 25 chairs from Vijay Mistry, regional sales manager, who was joined by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News
We have lift offHovercraft to join RIMLI's fleet The first RNU rescue hovercraft will be in operation as early as January 2003, located in Morecambe. The decision to go ahead was made by the RNLI Executive Committee after successful...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 12.—Mr. W. J. Burden, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Teignmouth Life-Boat Station
THERE has been a Life-boat of the Institution at Teignmouth, in South Devon, for 76 years, and for well over half that time Mr. W. J. Burden (who is one of three honorary Life-boat workers of the same name) has been its Honorary Secretary...
Category: Articles
Features
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Sweden
By Captain STENISBERG, Secretary of the Svenska Sällskabet För Räddning Af Skeppsbrutne...
Category: Articles
September
Launches 59. Lives rescued 46.
SEPTEMBER 3RD.- WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 7.50 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Portland, through the coastguard, that three trawlers or drifters were ashore between St....
Category: Services
Cover Picture
by Rick Tomlinson (Rothman Sailing) Bright and breezy conditions for the Ballyglass Arun class lifeboat ON 1159 Mabel Williams off the west coast of Ireland.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services
Afon Gwili
DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.40 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Brake Sands and asked that the life-boat should be launched immediately.
A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea....