LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
BEHIND EVERY RESCUE IS SOMEONE LIKE YOU
Leaving a gift to the RNLI in your Will is your legacy of care to millions of people who use our coast each year, from children playing on the beach, to fishing crews who battle the seas to put a fresh catch on the...
Category: Articles
Launches
LAuncHes laUNCheS 3,112 LiFeBoAt AnD HovercrAFt LAuncHes JuLY–septeMBer 2007 ABERDEEN on-1248(17-24):Jul16, Aug15 D-536:Jul2,12,16,30,31, Sep4,23 ABERDOVEY B-758:Jul15,Aug4,5,12, 22(x2),24,26(x4),29 ABERSOCH B-790:Jul6,23,24,25,27,29,...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (29)
Nov. 6TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
It had been reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..
Fundraising
Up, up and away Win the trip of a lifetim Virgin Balloon Flights have an exhilarating hot air balloon holiday to give away, plus a great-value offer on UK balloon flight vouchers.
Your chance to win You and your partner...
Category: Articles
The Hebe
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the 24th January, in reply to signals from the Swin Middle Light Ship, the Life-boat Albert Edward put to sea, and proceeding in a 8. direction sighted a dismasted ship—the Hebe, of Frederickstadt—on the east end of the...
A New Superintendent at the Depot
COMMANDER J. M. UPTON, M.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who has been Super- intendent of the Life-boat Depot since 1941, has retired and has been suc- ceeded by Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N.
Commander Upton, who was born at Petworth...
Category: Committee
‘THANK YOU FOR RESCUING US!’
When sisters Emily and Lydia visited Newborough Beach in north Wales on a blustery February day, they had no idea they’d end their trip on Trearddur Bay’s lifeboat
Getting cut off by the tide is an incredibly easy mistake...
Category: Articles
A Boat
ON 25th October last, the Motor Lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.
The sea was rough, with heavy squalls...
Some Special Gifts
From an Old Carthusian.
ON Trafalgar Day last year the Institu- tion received the following letter :— " In accordance with an old-estab- lished custom, I have pleasure in for- warding, in order to reach you on the 21st...
Category: Donations
At Her Righting Trial the Fast Slipway Boat Prototype City of London 'Capsized' By Crane Righted In Just Five Seconds Photographs By Courtesy of Brian Manhy
At her righting trial the fast slipway boat prototype City of London. - View image in PDF
'capsized' by crane, righted in just five seconds. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Brian Manhy 19. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs