LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Keeping It In the Family
The RNLI has a long history of family involvement. It is not unusual for several generations of one family to volunteer and many stations see a handful of names turn up time and again in the station history. Happily this tradition does not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Coble Sheila
DECEMBER 6TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the local motor fishing coble Sheila became overdue. A northwesterly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm, but it was thought advisable for the motor life-boat to...
The Story of a Goose
ON Sunday morning, 8th February, the Ramsey Life-boat went out to a ketch which was seen to be flying signals of distress a little way outside the harbour.
A strong breeze was blowing, but the sea was smooth and the...
Category: Articles
The Belgian Motor Trawler Jeannine
FEBRUARY 7TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 9.20 A.M. the coastguard at Porthleven reported a vessel apparently indistress half a mile to the S.S.W. A W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat W. and S. was...
The British Tanker Esso Canterbury
Valentia, Co. Cork - At 9 a.m. on 2nd March, 1966, the Marine Rescue Coordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the British tanker Esso Canterbury and that her estimated time of...
The Late George Palmer, Esq.
WE recently had to record the death of our late valued Chairman, Mr. WILSON, and now his old friend and coadjutor in the cause of humanity, Mr, PALMER, late Deputy- Chairman of the Royal Shipwreck Institution, and Inventor of the Life-boats...
Category: Obituaries
The New Brighton Life-Boat
THE new Motor Life-boat now being built for the Institution's Station at New Brighton, the first of the 60-foot Barnett twin-screw Boats with cabins, will, it is hoped, be completed and ready to be sent to her station this summer. It has...
Category: Articles
Below: the Retail Operations Team
Below: The retail operations team IL to Ft) Melanie Walker, Jason Small, Gloria Price, David Rendell and Angela Rook.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top Right: the Courtmacsherry Crew
Top right: The Courtmacsherry crew with Coxswain Dan O'Dwyer (middle front) Photo: Cad Wilson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Fishing Boat Mary
DEC. 1ST. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.
At 11.10 A.M. a fishing boat was seen drifting about three miles E.S.E. of Sunderland. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton - on...