LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welcome
Thank you so much for your comments on our new magazine – take a look at page 38 for a selection. Overall, the changes have gone down well. We’ll continue to work hard to bring you the best rescue stories, news, features and...
Category: Articles
Landlubber In the Life-Boat
The following article appeared in the Norwich Mercury of llth April, 1968, and is repro- duced by courtesy of the Editor Who, reading this, has not at some time or other rushed down to the beach at the sound of the maroons calling out the...
Category: Articles
‘ THEY WERE UTTERLY FROZEN’
When three people found themselves clinging to the bow of a sinking sailboat in the Dee Estuary, their hopes lay in the skill of a lifeboat crew – and no small amount of luck
On 22 February...
Category: Articles
Two Letters
THE first of these letters, from a little boy in Essex, came to the Institution last January, the second followed in September.
DEAR SIR,—My grannie has given me Five shilling to you for the life boat because I don't...
Category: Correspondence
An Aeroplane (22)
MARCH 25TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 1.42 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that an explosion, apparently from an aeroplane which had crashed into the sea, had been heard at a coast-watching post at...
The New Hatch-Boat, Specially Built for the Institution, Showing Her Paces Off Littlehampton
The new Hatch-boat, specially built for the Institution, showing her paces off Littlehampton.
She can be used as a boarding boat to take life-boat crews from the shore to life-boats which remain afloat, and she can also be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
Drama after the draw! The former Beirut hostage, John McCarthy, and comedienne Sandi Toksvig drew a massive crowd to Weymouth's harbourside when they kept a promise to the RNLI to pick the winning tickets in the 66th National Lottery.<...
Category: Articles
Focus On— Wells
WHEN one travels from Norwich, roughly north west, one soon begins to sense that the sea is not far away. The trees on exposed ground have a stunted look caused by the prevailing wind: their limbs are bent in a certain...
Category: Articles
Picturesque Postcard
Readers may be interested in this postcard photograph of Douglas lifeboat. It is one of several that came into the possession of my wife, Manx by birth, from her immediate family.
Although the lifeboat pictures are not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MAY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 10.55 at night the naval base reported through the coastguard that an American soldier and a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service had been cut off by the tide on Ynys Meibion rocks...