LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
CAPSIZE IN THE THAMES
The crew at Chiswick on the River Thames is one of our busiest – and in October 2016 they knew it wouldn’t be long before they were called on for the 3,000th time. But who would need their help?
Crew Members Gavin Simmons...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Dunvegan
Troon, Ayrshire.—Early on the morning of the 27th October it was learned that a vessel, four or five miles south of Ayr harbour, was making distress signals. A whole W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow showers. The motor...
The Lizard - West Division
The Lizard is the Southernmost point of the British mainland, a bold promontory that juts out to form a gatepost to the English Channel.
The station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in Kilcobben Bay - the boathouse with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
This Raggedy Looking Band of Players
This raggedy looking band of players are the Syzewell Gap Mummers who perform their play in pubs in the Aldeburgh area each year over Christmas to raise money for the lifeboat service. In 1986 they collected £90 in just two nights from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
‘ I THOUGHT IT WAS MY LAST BREATH’
After a fateful day at the end of June, Uzma Khan was left wondering what would have happened if she hadn’t stepped out onto the sands … if she hadn’t been carrying a mobile phone … or if three volunteers hadn’t gone to her...
Category: Articles
Roving Commission: the Rnli Mobile Training Unit Brings Up-To-The-Minute Radio Information to Lifeboat Crews
A WINTER EVENING. Cloud building up.
The south-west wind coming in over the Bristol Channel, moderate to fresh, rising . . .
'All lifeboats—Barry Coastguard— this is Barry Dock number one lifeboat —/...
Category: Articles
The Shipping Festival Service
THE annual Shipping Festival Service in Winchester Cathedral, organised by the Southampton Master Marin- ers Club, was held on the 25th of June. The Archbishop of Canterbury preached, and among those taking part in the service were the...
Category: Articles
One of the Belgian Motor Life-Boats Entering Ostend
One of the Belgian Motor Life-Boats Entering Ostend. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cuttle and Thorpe Grange
TOWED TO MOORINGS At 7.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1964, the nightwatchman reported that the reserve life-boat The Cuttle appeared to be dragging her anchor inside Spurn Point, in the rough seas and near gale force westerly winds. At 7.50 the...
The Haisbro' Lightvessel
Cromer, Norfolk. At 8.23 on the morn- ing of the 16th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a vessel had collided with the Haisbro' lightvessel, which was sinking. At 8.32, when the No. 1 life- boat...