LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Torbay
TORBAY, Sunday January 12, 1986: a 15-year-old boy had fallen 100 ft down a cliff to the south of Berry Head. A coastguard cliff rescue team had gone to his assistance and Torbay's 54 ft Arun class lifeboat, Edward Bridges, launched so... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
High Seas...
Continuing our look at lifeboat stations from the air Hunting Aerofilms, is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and is donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI.
Prices 8in by 8in -...
Category: Articles
High Seas
More bird's eye views of RNLI lifeboat stations.Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI. Prices: Sin by Sin - £17.63, 10in by 10in - £27.03,...
Category: Articles
Prince Charles Had a Word for Everyone Bill Adams Extreme Right and Tom Nutman Dl (Scotland North) Fifth from Right Photograph By Courtesy of Daily Express
Prince Charles had a word for everyone . . .
Bill Adams, extreme right, and Tom Nutman, Dl (Scotland, north), fifth from right.
photograph by courtesy of Daily Express . . . and accepted an invitation to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1975
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 9, 10, 19, 22, 26, July 3, 6, 7, 10, 13 (twice), 21, 27, 28, August 9, 10, 12 (twice), 13, 17, 20 (twice), 26, 28 and 30.
Abersoch, Gwynedd June 10, 26, July 1,10,12 (twice), 14,15,18, 21, 27, August...
Category: Services
New Ways of Raising Money
When a life-boat bridge tournament was held recently in a Dublin hotel, several supporters extended the scope of it to neighbouring counties by asking friends to play at tables in their houses.
The players at these tables...
Category: Donations
Union Crystal
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...
Test
At 12.30 A.M.
on the 5th September, during a whole N.E. gale with very heavy sea, it was reported to the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester that a vessel was ashore on the North Bank. The Life- boat was launched and...
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
The Listings section of this magazine shows just how often RNLI lifeboats launch. Here is a selection of the wide-ranging stories behind the statistics and, overleaf, full details of those rescues that merited formal awards Ex-lifeboat saved...
Category: Services
What Happens to Old Life-Boats?
SOMETIMES the story is put about that the R.N.L.I. is in the habit of burning life-boats which have been involved in accidents. The truth of the matter is that on a few occasions in the past, when life-boat hulls have been wrecked beyond...
Category: Articles