LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Left Below) to Commemorate a Favourite Customer Albert Howes the Talbot Hotel at Ripley Surrey
(Left, below) To commemorate a favourite customer, Albert Howes, the Talbot Hotel at Ripley, Surrey, has raised £3,000 to buy a radar for a lifeboat. The target was finally reached on Easter Saturday when a publicity D class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnlb the Duke of Cornwall
RNLB The Duke of Cornwall, a 52ft Burnett class lifeboat, until recently stationed at The Lizard/Cadgwith, on passage between Hayle and St Ives. Well, actually, it's a model of her and she and two other lifeboat models, the creations of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Osman Gabriel
It is with great sorrow that we announce the death early last October of Mrs. Osman Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel was herself the generous donor of an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat, and it was in her honour that the second 37' Rother class...
Category: Obituaries
About 2000 People Gathered on Moelfre Beach Anglesey on Saturday June 7 to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Lifeboat Station a Service of Thanksgiving and Re-Dedication Was Conducte
About 2,000 people gathered on Moelfre beach, Anglesey, on Saturday June 7, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the lifeboat station. A service of thanksgiving and re-dedication was conducted by His Grace, The Archbishop of Wales, during... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Picture this!
Malcolm MacDonald, Assistant Tractor Driver at Ramsey Lifeboat Station, has been named RNLI Photographer of the Year.
Malcolm took first prize in the RNLI-wide competition for his picture of the station’s Mersey class...
Category: Articles
Asterionella (1)
Capsize THE DAY OF TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 1986, dawned at Brighton with gale force winds blowing from the south south west, gusting to force 9 and skies overcast with a slight drizzle. Very heavy seas were running and waves up to 15 feet in...
Life-Boats and Property Salvage
THE occasional claims for property salvage made by members of life-boat crews sometimes lead to misunder- standing of both the law and practice in this matter, and mis-statements of fact are not infrequently made both publicly and privately....
Category: Articles
Rising to the challenge
January’s storms called our volunteers into action in hazardous conditions that pushed our people and craft to their limits
The New Year had hardly begun when Penlee and The Lizard lifeboat...
Category: Articles
News
By the time this issue of theLifeboat reaches you, coastal hovercraft trials will have been completed as part of the RNLI's hovercraft pilot scheme.
Following successful results from initial trials at Poole, the 7.6m...
Category: Articles
HRH the Princess Anne
HRH The Princess Anne, has recently had the opportunity to inspect two of the RNLI's most up-to-date lifeboats. At Brixham (left), on a visit to open the new HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre, she walked down King's Quay to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs