LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life on the Open Road
When Spring approaches and inshore lifeboats prepare for their busy period, George Dadson, RNLI truck driver, knows there is far more going on behind the scenes than may meet the public eye…George is responsible for ensuring the inflatables...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Coble Gratitude
NOVEMBER 20TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 10.45 in the morning the life-boat crew were assembled, as anxiety was felt for the motor fishing coble Gratitude, which was at sea. A north-east gale was blowing, with heavy broken water. The...
Fundraising Choir, the Cromer Smugglers,
Fundraising choir, the Cromer Smugglers, make their mark as international favourites…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hm the Queen and Hrh the Duke of Edinburgh
While HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh were touring Fife on July 1, Prince Philip went afloat in Anstruther lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley The Doctors, taking great interest in the carriage launch (above, left and right): in command of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When In Buckie the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
A few days later, when in Buckie, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Jones Shipyard, where they saw the 48ft 6in Solent relief lifeboat The Royal British Legion Jubilee, which Her Majesty had named at Henley in 1972, ten years ago;... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wasting of the English Coast. (From the Times, 5th October, 1886)
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
Category: Articles
Feature: Heart of the Matter
There was a buzz in the Barbican on 19 May 2005 as RNLI Governors, crew, fundraisers and other supporters gathered for a day of reflection and celebration RNLI core supporters came from all corners of the UK and the Republic of Ireland to...
Category: Articles
The Small Steam Launch Nimrod
GIRVAN.—In consequence of a gale from the S.W. and a heavy fresh in the river on the 9th February, there was dangerous surf on the bar of the harbour.
The small steam-launch Nimrod, which plies between Girvan and Ailsa...
The Danish Fishing Vessel Ove
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.25 on the night of the 29th of April, 1957, the honorary secretary was visiting the life-boat station when he saw a small craft drifting broadside in the middle of the harbour. An attempt was made to communicate by...
The Converted Ship's Boat Curlew
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.25 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boats had left Tobermory to search for a converted ship's boat, which had broken down off Mingary,...