LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dave Kennett Is Coxswain of the Yarmouth Lifeboat.
Dave Kennett is coxswain of the Yarmouth lifeboat. Having joined the crew in 1968, he served as second coxswain from 1969 until his appointment as coxswain/mechanic in 1971.
Since 1979, Dave has been the station's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Just Seconds to Spare As Cleethorpe's D Class Lifeboat Races Through the Finishing Gate
Just seconds to spare as Cleethorpe's D class lifeboat races through the finishing gate. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Grimsby Evening Telegraph). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1955 79,860 Notes of the Quarter THE first good summer which Britain and...
Category: Articles
An Auster Aircraft
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...
Muschi, the Feline Storm Force Member, Taking Things Easy at the Grand Old Age of 13!
Muschi, the feline storm force member, taking things easy at the grand old age of 13!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (6)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
An Aeroplane (168)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 12.50 P.M. the police telephoned that a German aeroplane had been shot down three miles S.W. of The Lizard.
A westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat...
RNLI Family: The life of the charity. Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
ALL GROWN UP
Back in 2012, photographer Nigel Millard took a picture of the children of Tobermory’s crew trying on their parents’ kit. Almost 5 years later, the station recreated the iconic shot. Alexander Anderson (second...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 143 station life-boats 36 inshore rescue boats 1 70-foot steel life-boat on operational trials 1 44-foot steel life-boat on evaluation trials at Barry Dock LIVES RESCUED 90,420 from the Institution's foundation in...
Category: Services