LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 3.5 p.m. on 8th February, 1970, it was learnt that a man was clinging to a capsized canoe and drifting off shore in a northerly direction.
The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...
The Women of Boulmer. Seven Hours on Duty In a December Night's Blizzard
ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.
Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collier which loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...
Category: Services
Douglas Lifeboat R a Colby Cubbin No1
Douglas lifeboat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 is pictured returning from an exercise involving the warship HMS Ribble a River class RNR minesweeper based at Liverpool. The exercise involved transferring a casualty in a Neil Robinson stretcher... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Edward Spender, Esq.
THE LATE EDWARD SPENDER, ESQ.
BY the lamented death of this gentleman, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has lost one of its ablest and most steadfast advocates in the press. On Friday, the 7th June last, Mr. Spender...
Category: Obituaries
A Coble
During a strong northerly gale which had brought up a rough sea on the 27th February the Chief Officer of Coast- guard reported that a coble was about three miles off Flamborough Head, and in considerable danger. The report was received at 4...
A Pontoon
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 6.35 on the morning of the 19th August, 1961, the coxswain received a request for the help of the life-boat to take workmen off Messrs. Wimpey's pontoon. He contacted the honorary secretary, who authorised the...
A Surfboard
Surfer saved RNLI lifeguards battled adverse conditions on 3 July 2005 to save the life of a surfer at Tolcarne Bay in Cornwall. He had severe head injuries from having been repeatedly washed onto the rocks. Lifeguard Richie Mullin dived...
Annual Meeting
THE ninety-third Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the Mansion House, London, by kind per- mission of the Lord Mayor, on Tuesday, 17th April, 1917, at 3.30 P.M. H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G....
Category: Meetings
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Fowey (Cornwall), Weymouth (Dorset), Thurso (Caithness), and Stornoway (Island of Lewis) DURING September four new Motor Life-boats were formally inaugurated, those at Fowey, Weymouth, Thurso and Stornoway. Thus, with the South- end-on-Sea...
Category: Inaugurations
A Correction
WE deeply regret that in the last issue of The Lifeboat we incorrectly announced the death of one of our oldest Lifeboat workers, Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-on-Sea, at the age of nearly ninety. The error was caused by the fact that we...
Category: Obituaries