LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rallying Round
Neil and Nairn are pictured outside the John O' Groats hotel with their travelstained Austin-Healey. Photo Mary Harvey. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Oloa Pauline
At 9 A.M. on the 18th March a telegram was received from the Coastguard at | St. Andrews stating that a vessel was making for the Tay close in-shore and setting towards the sands. The Cox- swain assembled the crew of the new motor Life-boat...
Parting Shot
John Swan, Deputy Launching Authority and former Mechanic and Crew Member of Berwick-upon-Tweed lifeboat, retired on 4 March after giving 31 years of service to the station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
PLAYING SAFE
Every year our lifeboat crews and lifeguards rescue hundreds of children. But it’s much more fun helping them stay out of trouble in the first place
Walter Lee is a volunteer education presenter in Glasgow. ‘Some of the...
Category: Articles
Passing Cloud
Information was received from Killantringan Light- house through Portpatrick Wireless Station at 8.15 A.M. on the 10th August that two small fishing boats were in distress and struggling to reach safety against a strong S.W. breeze with a...
B.S. Colling
Several fish- ing boats and cobles put out early on the morning of the 24th November, but a strong sea got up and they all returned, except two boats and a coble.
The life-boat crew stood by all the morning and at 1 P.M....
Commander Solling
A heavy gale •was blowing at E.S.B. on the 18th De- cember, when the Life-boat Foresters' Pride put out and saved 9 men from the brig Commander Soiling, of Grimstadt One man was saved by the rocket apparatus..
Strait Talking
The narrow stretch of water which separates England from France has long been a hub of marine activity, and lifeboat stations have been established there for nearly 200 years. Mike Floyd looks at the Dover Straits today and the way in which...
Category: Articles
Sad Passing
It was with great sadness that the RNLI learned of Harry Patch’s death in July at the age of 111.
Harry’s relationship with the RNLI began when he kindly funded a D class lifeboat from the proceeds of his book The last...
Category: Articles
Annie Melling
The Coastguard officer reported at 9.15 j A.M. on the 6th May that there was a ! vessel on the Long Bank signalling for immediate assistance. The assembly signal was fired and the Life-boat Tom ' and Jennie despatched. There...