LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat—In Danger's Hour'
THE RNLI'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES contain thousands of lifeboat pictures which not only document the progress in boats and equipment but also provide an insight to changing social conditions.
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Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (140)
OCTOBER 7TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.10 P.M. information was received by telephone that a fighter aeroplane had crashed in the sea. A few minutes later one of the life-boatmen reported that he could see a small object on...
In their element
Surfing is often a way of life for those brought up by the sea. It’s also become a tool for lifesaving. Claire Vandvik finds out about the joys and the dangers of the waves
Surfers were once dismissed as beach bums but now...
Category: Articles
In a Whole Gale
The Mary Scott, on temporary duty at Dover, going out on January 1st, 1949, to the help of a pilot boat. - View image in PDF
From a painting by Mr, A. Whiting, a member of the crw.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stranded in a storm
When a trawler hit propeller problems in force 9 winds and high seas, it took the skill and bravery of two lifeboat crews to bring the fishermen back to safety
On the belts, in the pockets and...
Category: Articles
May
Launches 32. Lives rescued 24.
MAY 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. During the afternoon the coxswain was watching the Wexford pilot boat off Wexford Bar, apparently waiting for the tide. A N.N.E....
Category: Services
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1 CCl - Mersey class Ruby Clenf Saturday 12 September 1992 started dry with the threat of rain later, but fortunately not until the naming ceremony of the new Peel lifeboat Ruby Clery was almost over.
The Mersey class...
Category: Inaugurations
Whose sea is it anyway?
The RNLI's lifeboats operate to 100 miles from shore – but who controls the waters they navigate?
Freedom of the Seas
Across the world, land has been divided by mankind...
Category: Articles
Caroline in real life
Mum, wife, broadcaster and self-styled nosey parker Caroline Quentin explains how her new series brought her up close and personal with lifeboating
‘Oh do shut up darlings!’ calls Caroline...
Category: Articles
In a Break With Tradition Julie Barr Empties a Quaich of Irn-Bru to Officially Name the New Lifeboat
In a break with tradition Julie Barr empties a quaich of Im-Bru to officially name the new lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs