LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44' Waveney Lifeboat Khami Was Launched In a Near Gale on Sunday August 22 to Go to the Help of American Yacht Sonata Taking Water
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami was launched in a near gale on Sunday, August 22, to go to the help of American yacht Sonata, taking water four miles south of Cross Sand Lightvessel. Sonata got the leak... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Plans for RNLI lifeboat station at Portishead
Portishead Lifeboat Trust has requested that the RNLI takes on the running of the independent Portishead and Bristol lifeboat.
Our Trustees have agreed, in principle, to pursue the adoption of the Somerset station, but...
Category: Articles
Blunder Woman1 Lilian Crust Prepares for Her Daredevil Stunt
'Blunder woman1 Lilian Crust prepares for her daredevil stunt. Photo Kentish Times Newspaper. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
Lifeboat! by Edward Wake-Walker, Heather Deane and Georgette Purches, published by Ian Allen at £5.95 ISBN 0-7110-1835-9 As the authors of this volume are the RNLI's public relations officer, his deputy and a recently retired...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Medal for Netley Hospital
THE Institution has presented to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hants, a silver medal which it awarded forty-one years ago to Private James Carroll, of the Royal Irish Regiment.
In May, 1893, Private Carroll and three...
Category: Medals
Today's Lifeboatmen
Today's Exmouth lifeboat crew is very much a family affair - six members of two families make up nearly a quarter of the entire crew.
Among the 25 strong crew is Coxswain Keith Graham with his two sons and the three...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (36)
JUNE 20TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had come down in the sea but small boats gave all the help needed. - Rewards, £20 5s. 9d. (See Hastings “ Services by Shoreboats,” page 146.).
TOUCH AND GO
When a cargo ship lost power and started drifting towards danger, two lifeboat crews headed out on a rescue that would test their endurance to the limit ‘It’s an unusual coincidence,' says Padstow Mechanic Mike England, ‘that for the...
Category: Articles
(Left) Margate Lifeboat Returns for Refuelling
(Left) Margate lifeboat returns for refuelling during the night search.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
Category: Correspondence