LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Drakkar
INJURED ON TRAWLER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 6.55 p.m. on igth January, 1965, Waterford Harbour Commissioners were informed by Land's End radio station that there was a badly injured man with a cut artery on board the French...
Skegness:
Skegness: A Balcar 105 helicopter was seen to crash into the sea, five miles east south east of Skegness, on the afternoon of Tuesday July 24, 1984. At 1306 Skegness's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat launched from the beach manned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
James Dougal Has Been Assistant Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic of Eyemouth
James Dougal has been assistant second coxswain/ assistant mechanic of Eyemouth lifeboat since 1991. He joined the crew in 1972 and served as assistant mechanic from 1982 until taking up his present position.
A collective... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A LIFESAVING TICKET
WINTER 2015 LOTTERY RESULTS
Congratulations to Mrs M Croain from Hampshire, who
won the £5,000 first prize in our Winter Lifeboat Lottery.
The other winners were:
2ND PRIZE:...
Category: Articles
Honours for lifesavers
Congratulations to the six RNLI volunteers and staff recognised in the 2017 New Year Honours:
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE):
Vivienne Grey, a volunteer crew member at Little and Broad Haven...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
STORM on the waters; and the cruel wind Howls like a savage beast whose riven chain Hath loosed to slaughter; on the shore the grind, The rush, the hiss of the vexed waves complain, Sounding like solemn dirge, 'mid plash of driving...
Category: Poetry
Above: Plaque on the James and Catherine Macfarlane Stating That the Cost of the Boat Was Defrayed By a Gift from Mr. Robert F. Macfarlane In . Memory of His Father and Mother, (Top Right) Earl
Above: Plaque on the James and Catherine Macfarlane stating that the cost of the boat was defrayed by a gift from Mr. Robert F. Macfarlane in .
memory of his father and mother, (top right) Early stages in the building of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosa and The Cornucopia
Shortly be- fore noon on the 15th November two fishing-yawls—the Bose and the Cornu- copia—belonging to St. Abbs, were seen from the harbour to be in great danger.
They had gone off fishing at dawn, but during the morning...
The Life-Boat Man
LIKE the he . t of a woman (pathetic and tender), Tet stalwart and strong, with a soul ever true: Alert with pure courage his service to render— These are the men in the jerseys of blue.
For whenever the storm with its...
Category: Poetry
LIFESAVING IN FRANCE
The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer 1973 NEWS HAS COME from France of the launching by the Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer of a new 15.5 m 'all seasons' lifeboat, Pierre Loti; a boat which cost over £100,000 to build...
Category: Articles