LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (22)
JULY 15TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A steamer was reported to have been bombed and sunk by enemy aeroplanes, but the lifeboat found nothing except a patch of oil.
Another vessel picked up an injured man in a...
Dave Jones
Dave Jones (right) pictured with Trevor Gifford performing his final duty as President of the Australian Volunteer Coastguard by exchanging pennants. See story, left.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sailing Today
GET 3 ISSUES FOR JUST £1 We’re delighted to offer members of the RNLI this opportunity to help celebrate our 10th birthday with the next 3 issues of Sailing Today for just £1. Welcome aboard In case you haven’t picked up a copy of...
Category: Advertisement
Vigilant, of Hayle
On the same day the schooner Vigilant, of Hayle, was seen in distress during bad weather, and in a heavy sea, on the western spit of Hayle Bar. The Oxford University life-boat Isis stationed at that port was launched, and succeeded in...
Build for life
Today, RNLI lifeboats are designed and built in-house. Soon, we will be fitting them out and doing their maintenance too, as project leader David Price explains ...
The pace of change in our...
Category: Articles
A French Yacht Rescued on the Coast of Jersey
THE night of the 27th of September, 1951, was very dark and overcast at St. Helier, in Jersey. A fresh wind was blowing from the south-south- west; there was a swell rising from six to eight feet; and heavy storms of rain made visibility...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd September, 1869: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Ship to shore
Remarkable advances in technology mean that sailors are no longer isolated from the rest of the world while at sea
Throughout history sailors would have to go many months without news from home...
Category: Articles
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Quick action saves life of fellow lifeboatman lost overboard It is particularly difficult for a lifeboat crew to go to the rescue of somebody that they know. It makes it even harder when the casualty is a fellow lifeboatman. The crew of...
Letters
Local boat How does one 'sell' the lifeboat service? Our branch committee at Barrow-in-Furness believes that where you have a comparatively isolated community and a lifeboat station as well, you 'localise' the boat. There...
Category: Correspondence