LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Air Sea Rescue Launch
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 26th of November, 1952, it was learnt that an air sea rescue launch in North Bay had parted one mooring, and that the other was badly frayed. She had no crew aboard, and the R...
Anchor man
There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...
Category: Articles
Central Appeals Committee
Committee EXCELLENT SUPPORT has continued this quarter for the various projects of the Central Appeals Committee. Captain Phelps, master of John Biscoe of the British Antarctic Survey, on arrival at Southampton handed over more than £31...
Category: Committee
Britannia Rescue
.-' We've been voted 'Road Rescue Best Buy1 for the 4th time in a row by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine, that's just one of the reasons why the RNLI has made us their official membership motoring scheme for...
Category: Advertisement
Dedication: Offshore—Inshore
MOELFRE, JUNE 17 and BROUGHTY FERRY, JULY 17 BRILLIANT SUNSHINE and a fresh northerly wind building up white horses out at sea gave a sparkling day for the handing over ceremony and dedication of Moelfre's new 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat,...
Category: Inaugurations
A Vessel (29)
AUGUST 16TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A vessel of over 5,000 tons had been mined at the mouth of the Humber, but all the survivors were picked up by armed trawlers. - Paid permanent crew..
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...
Category: Articles
Whitby:
Whitby: 1235 on Tuesday March 19, 1985. A party of 27 school children with three teachers were reported by a member of the public to be cut off by the tide at Jump Down Bight, 250 yards east of Whitby. Both the relief 44ft Waveney class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Credit cards closing
It is with regret that the RNLI is required to close all Lifeboats MasterCard accounts after more than 20 successful years.
Since its introduction, the Lifeboats MasterCard has generated over £1M in charitable...
Category: Articles
(Left) for Extra Buoyancy, Gas Can Be Released from the Canister Shown By Pulling the Red Toggle.
(Below) Rear View of the Jacket, Showing The Retro Reflective Tape On Its Safety Harness. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs