LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Viola
On the 31st October the steam drifter Viola, of Banff, ran ashore on Scroby Sands when returning to Yarmouth from the fishing grounds.
An increasing N.N.E. wind was blow- ing and the sea was heavy on the sands.
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Lucky Lass
Peel, Isle of Man - At 11.28 a.m. on lyth June, 1966, a m.f.v. about three miles off Lhen was seen firing red flares.
The life-boat Clara and Emily Banuell, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.55 iQ a south...
Dorothea Weber
GERMAN COASTER AIDED At 1.34 p.m. on i8th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German coaster Dorothea Weber appeared to be in difficulties off the North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a storm force wind...
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
AEGEAN SUPPORT
The narrow channels between Turkey and Greece have been busy over the past year, as desperate people attempt to cross the Aegean into Europe. More than 700 are believed to have drowned. How can the RNLI help?
Just 4 miles...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services
THE accompanying illustration of one of the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION proceeding off to a wreck, is from an exquisite picture painted by Mr. SAMUEL WALTERS, an eminent marine artist of Bootle, near Liverpool. He was...
Category: Services
The Loss of the Steam-Ship 'London'
A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...
Category: Articles
(Below) David John Nelson Son of Assistant Mechanic John Buckland of Eastbourne Lifeboat and His Wife Joan and Horn on Trafalgar Day 1977 Was Christened By F
(Below) David John Nelson, son of Assistant Mechanic John Buckland of Eastbourne lifeboat and his wife Joan, and horn on Trafalgar Day 1977, was christened by Father Roy Cotton using the ship's bell of the former HMS Eastbourne as font.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Breezy Day In Barmouth As the Station's Mersey Class Moira Barry Comes Alongside. Neither Rain Nor Wind Could Dampen the Enthusiasm and Ashore Colourful
A breezy day in Barmouth as the station's Mersey class Moira Barry comes alongside. Neither rain nor wind could dampen the enthusiasm and ashore colourful umbrellas vied with the bunting!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bierum
Hoylake, Cheshire, and Rhyl, Flintshire - At 9.25 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the shipping agent to the m.v. Bierum informed the Rhyl honorary secretary that the vessel had gone aground a quarter of a mile east of Point of Air...