LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The power of the sea
Need some inspiration for your Summer reading list? Here’s a collection of books that celebrate the skills and endurance needed to master our planet’s expansive oceans
For adventurers
Across the Arctic Ocean –...
Category: Articles
Past & Present
100 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, August, 1888 Issue.
Brighstone Grange and Brooke, Isle of Wight On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Starting them young! J o s e p h Stravrinidis, aged six, of Southport has been doing sterling work for the RNLI. During the September meeting of the S o u t h p o r t branch, he presented the treasurer with money raised by selling drawings...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months June, July and August, 1971
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June 1971 to 31st August 1971: Launches 1,330, lives saved 787 THE ACTIVE FLEET (as at 31/8/71) 135 station life-boats 111 inshore rescue boats LIVES RESCUED 94,443 from the Institution'...
Category: Services
Dijon and Peebles
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...
A Summer Service. What It Feels Like to Be Rescued
ON the afternoon of 12th August a message was received at the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Station, that a sailingboat had capsized about a mile and a half from the shore, off Fort Victoria.
A moderate gale was blowing, and the...
Category: Services
Minnie II
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. — On the llth March, 1939, the life-boat motor mechanic saw a sailing yacht which appeared to be in difficulties about three miles S.E. of the life-boathouse.
A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing,...
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1857. His Grace the PRESIDENT in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read...
Category: Committee
The Motor Fishing Boats Pilot Me II and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morn- ing of the 8th of May, 1951, there was a strong northerly gale and a heavy swell off Whitby; and it was making the harbour bar very dangerous for the returning local motor fishing boats, Pilot Me II and...
Ardency
Eleven men and fishing vessel saved In winds gusting to 90 knotsA difficult service in winds up to almost 90 knots earned coxswain / mechanic Hewitt Clark of the Lerwick lifeboat a Bronze Medal, recognising his leadership, seamanship and...