LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
Far and wide I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.
She and her husband were driving along a highway when she spotted an RNLI...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services Around the World
Those who explain the RNLI and its role to the uninitiated are frequently asked: 'how do other countries do it?' Can there be anywhere else in the world where the considerable cost of running a lifeboat service is met entirely...
Category: Articles
Lobo
Five saved from foundering yacht When five Danish sailors found themselves in difficulties off the Yorkshire coast with their engine :ailing in appalling weather, the Bridlington lifeboat crew needed all their skill, courage and...
Man overboard
The launch was one of their toughest – what would the lifeboat volunteers find when they reached the casualty, dragging in the water?
It was a bright and breezy morning on
4 September 2009 when a man and...
Category: Articles
What did you learn at school today?
Some brave RNLI volunteers face 10m waves and force 9 gales; others find themselves at the mercy of 30 excitable 5-year-olds. So how do we help save lives from the relative safety of the...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1909
Jan. 8.—Eight men promptly put off in a coble and saved three men from a small pleasure oobla who were overtaken by bad weather when out fishing off Berwick-on- Tweed.—Reward, il.
Jan. 11.—Six men put off in a coble during...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1795—1900. No. 2
AFTER the valuable work done by Lukin in 1807, in initiating the Norfolk and Suffolk type of Life-boat, there appears to have been a considerable period before any new type found a place on the coast. No doubt small variations from the...
Category: Articles
St. George
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—A terrific gale from the N.W. blew during Sunday night, October 6, at Peel, and on the west coast of the Isle of Man, accompanied by heavy torrents of rain. At Peel the full fary of the gale was felt with exceptional force...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROTAL NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT IHSTITUTIOH and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles