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The New Trevose Head Station

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

The operational opening of the Trevose Head, Padstow, lifeboat station took place on 23rd October, 1967, when the new lifeboat James and Catherine Mac- Farlane was launched down the 240-foot long slipway. On the left is the new... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Busy Month at Port Talbot

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

September was a busy month for Port Talbot lifeboat station - with the naming the station's new D class lifeboat and a Royal visit by RNLI President HRH the Duke of Kent KG taking place in just over a week of each other.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Robert 'Bobby' Brunton

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

May 1997 Robert 'Bobby' Brunton DSM, former Tynemouth lifeboat coxswain. Robert joined the Tynemouth lifeboat in 1948 progressing from signaller to second coxswain and becoming coxswain in 1962, a position which he held until his...

Category: Obituaries

Richard Pearce,

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Richard Pearce, Silver medal winning helmsman of Brighton lifeboat, certainly knows all about the serious (and often hazardous) side of lifeboat work - but what about those incidents that Richard couldn't help remembering without a smile... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

All adrift

Date: Winter 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 598 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2011

22 October 2011: Eastbourne all-weather lifeboat crew responded to the call for help from a cruiser with engine failure. She was drifting quickly and her crew suffering severe seasickness in the turbulent seas. The lifeboat towed her to...

Category: Articles

Family rescued

Date: Summer 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 604 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2013

28 April: Anstruther, Fife A family were rescued from a chainwalk after they became cut off by the tide. Anstruther RNLI inshore lifeboat brought the family onboard and transferred them to the safety of the...

Category: Articles

Eastern Princess

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

RECORD NUMBER LANDED Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

At 10.2 on Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the pleasure boat Eastern Princess, of Yarmouth, had run aground in...

News

Date: Autumn 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 578

News Battered and brave A passing journalist captured one of the most iconic images of the RNLI’s history when he photographed the Scarborough lifeboat and crew in action in May 2005 (above). They were searching for a mother and her children...

Category: Articles

Voices

Date: Spring 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 580

VOICes ‘The lifeboat volunteers make me proud to be British.’ Murray Walker The voice of Formula One tells Rory Stamp of his admiration for the RNLI’s crews ‘I’ve always had immeasurable respect for them,’ says Murray Walker as he watches...

Category: Articles

Record Draw

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

The RNLI's 80th lifeboat lottery drawn on 31 January raised a incredible £212,000 from tickets sales - the previous highest total was last year's Summer lottery raising £182,000.

Andrew Hartwell, managing... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs