LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...
Category: Articles
Letters
in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat, we reported on the opening of The Lifeboat College in Pooie, Dorset. We described some of the facilities and equipment available on this unique site and talked to some of those who are to benefit...
Category: Correspondence
Trawler in trouble
2 October 2012: RNLI lifeboats from Tynemouth, Blyth and Cullercoats mounted a joint operation to bail out a sinking trawler. Tynemouth Crew Member Ian Black entered the engine room of the badly listing vessel,...
Category: Articles
A Year of Endeavour
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI, brandies and guilds were asked to make some special fund raising effort to help raise the six million pounds needed for the vast boat building programme on which the Institution has embarked...
Category: Donations
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Testing tow at Port St MaryWhen the Trent class Cough Ritchie II Launched, all that the crew knew was that a fishing boat was in trouble about 20 miles south east of Port St Mary in the Isle of Man. When they discovered that it was the large...
Category: Services
Fundraising
A light in the darkness As announced in the spring 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, the RNLI ran an advertisement on selected cable and satellite TV channels during April.
Filmed as if from the perspective of a casualty...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
POET ERIN, ISLE or MAN.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she...
Category: Services
Inaugural Ceremonies, England
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Newhaven. H.R.H. The Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, at Scarborough and Bridling ton.
EIGHTEEN Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held during the five months...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER, KENT.—On the 1st October, during hazy weather, the barquentine Juno, of Riga, stranded on the South Goodwin Sands, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sunderland. Informa- tion reached the Coxswain of the Life- boat about 9 A.M., and...
Category: Services
Rescue
RescUe Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity....
Category: Articles