LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
With courage, nothing is impossible
The new RNLI memorial in Poole is a sculptural celebration of humanity at its best. But how did such an inspirational landmark come into being?
On a corner plot by a busy road, a metallic structure glints in the sunlight....
Category: Articles
The First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore Spent An Hour With the Rnli When Visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy Last Autumn (Above Right—Royal Marine Phot
The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore, spent an hour with the RNLI when visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy last autumn. (Above right—Royal Marine photograph) He was transferred by Atlantic 21 1LB to (above) Arun class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launceston, of Sheilds, and Artic Hero, of Goole
During very severe weather on the llth February the Life-boat Huddersfield went off, in reply to signals from the Hasborough light- ship, and brought ashore 15 men who had formed part of the crews of the barques Launceston, of Shields, and...
Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Life-Boats
CATEGORY (1) Naval vessels . .
(2) Foreign going merchant vessels (3) Home trade merchant vessels . .
(4) Commercial fishing vessels (5) Powered pleasure craft . .
(6) Sailing pleasure...
Category: Services
Caribia, of Delfzyl
FEBRUARY 26TH - 27TH. - CAISTER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 2.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Caister that the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had just launched to a vessel on the east side of...
Invermore, of Dublin (2)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
The Rescue of Drowning Persons
THE RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS.
THE summer of 1868 will long be remembered by the present generation in the British Isles as the most extraordinary within their recollection ; for what With the long continuance of almost...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the LORD MAYOR of London, on Thursday, the 28th of February, 1867, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.,...
Category: Annual Reports
Three Times the Target for Tall Ships Race
Mike Andrews aboard his 12 ton Gauntlet Heather in St Katharine Dock, London before the start of the Tall Ships Race. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Robert Glen and Ron Miller of E. P. Barrus
Robert Glen and Ron Miller of E. P. Barrus hold the cheque which funded the D class Lawnflite visible behind them.
Behind the cheque is RNLI director Brian Miles and flanking them are Richard Parry (left) and Andy Elton... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs