LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Increasing respect for the water
Respect the Water – the RNLI’s safety campaign – launched throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland this Summer. The campaign was bigger than ever, with thought-provoking adverts in cinemas, on radio, the web and in the press, all in the...
Category: Articles
THE 18-HOUR RESCUE MISSION
When Islay lifeboat crew launched to a yachtsman in treacherous seas and force 11 winds, they couldn’t have known that their courage would result in a life saved that night – or a Medal for Gallantry
‘ My adrenaline...
Category: Articles
Lymington Right the Way Round the Isle of Wight
How long would it take two canoeists, paddling inflatable canoes, to travel from Lymington, right the way round the Isle of Wight and back to Lymington again? That was the question put to everyone entering a competition organised by Rob... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The Weymouth Crabber Kael Coz
Four saved from grounded crabber In a letter from the chief of operations, Padstow lifeboat crew has been praised for a service which 'was carried out in dangerous conditions' and which 'called upon each of the crew's...
The Caister Life-Boat Disaster
THE terrible disaster which overtook one of the Life-boats belonging to the Institution, stationed at Caister on the coast of Norfolk, in November last will be fresh in the minds of our readers.
The expressions of sympathy...
Category: Articles
The Two Belgian Motor Life-Boats, Built from the Plans of the Watson Cabin Type
The Two Belgian Motor Life-Boats Built From The Plans of the Watson Cabin Type. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1896
THE " Abstracts of the Shipping Casual- ties which have occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year ended 30th June, 1896," have recently been issued by the Board of Trade, and are of the deepest interest,...
Category: Articles
The Small Rowing Boat Winifred
The small rowing boat Winifred, of Ramsgate, with two men aboard, put to sea on the morning of the 13th July, but a thick fog came down and the men did not know where they were. Their cries for help were heard, and the Motor Life-boat...
Lifeboats to the Flood Rescue
• ev he first call came at 7.40am on Thursday 12 October. Following some of the heaviest rain ever seen in the South East. East Sussex Fire Brigade requested the RNLI's assistance with flood relief in Uckfield. This was the start of a...
Category: Services