LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gavin and Chy Meet After the Rescue
Gavin and Chy meet after the rescue. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat The Ivy Dale
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Spurn . Point coastguard telephoned that an ex-R.N.L.I. life-boat, the Ivy Dale, of London, had run ashore off Withernsea and had damaged her rudder. She asked for the...
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
Category: Awards
Last Spring It Was Announced That the Variety Club of Great Britain Had Agreed to Meet the Costs of the Payments Made By the Rnli to Dependent Children of Lifeboat
Last spring it was announced that the Variety Club of Great Britain had agreed to meet the costs of the payments made by the RNLI to dependent children of lifeboatmen who had lost their lives on service or exercise, and also that the Club... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Silver Jubilee We were delighted to read about the present Wells' lifeboat in the winter issue of the journal and also to hear about the naming by Princess Margaret last November of Margate's new Rother lifeboat, Silver Jubilee...
Category: Correspondence
People and Places
Gary makes a meal of it! When TV superchef Gary Rhodes was in search of an original culinary challenge for his latest television series, Alderney lifeboat crew cooked up a great idea. Having often enjoyed the hospitality of CROSSMA - the...
Category: Articles
Broughty Ferry Life-Boat Mona After the Disaster
Broughty Ferry Life-Boat Mona After The Disaster. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A year of lifesaving
RNLI lifeboats launched an amazing 8,141 times in 2007, rescuing 7,834 people around the UK and RoI. RNLI lifeguards on 71 English beaches rescued 1,350 people and responded to 8,201 incidents. The charity’s Flood Rescue team (previously the...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 13th of March, 1866, the Eight Hon. EARL PERCY, P.O., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was read by the...
Category: Annual Reports
A Speed Boat
Not under command A MESSAGE came to Yarmouth Coastguard from Norfolk Police at 1700 on Wednesday August 12, 1981, to say that a speedboat was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach, Heacham, and a child had been hit; an...