LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats
'-On the 8th of April the brigantine Cebufg, of Whitby , ran ashore in an E.S.E. gale near Bridlington Quay.
The Bridlington life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was immediately launched, and...
Category: Services
Sharing the Work—And the Enjoyment—In a Husband and Wife Partnership Alf and Joan Jenkins Are Joint Honorary Secretaries of Truro Branch They Put Their Combin
Sharing the work—and the enjoyment—in a husband and wife partnership, Alf and Joan Jenkins are joint honorary secretaries of Truro branch. They put their combined help behind such enterprising branch activities as a button auction which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Posing for the Camera Are the 45 New Members of Storm Force
Posing for the camera are the 45 new members of Storm Force, all pupils at St Patrick's Primary School, Troon, Scotland. They are pictured with the coxswain of the local lifeboat, Ian Johnson (back row, left), the second coxswain Tom... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Yarmouth Life-Boats. (Continued from "The Life-Boat," August, 1918, p. 233.)
THE night will long be remembered for the almost unparalleled violence of the gale which swept over England, leaving a track of ruin and devastation such as is rarely seen in our temperate climate.
In Gorleston itself the...
Category: Services
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
The S.S. Surreybrook
THIS account of a service by the Tynemouth life-boat in September, 1949, should have appeared among the services for that month in The Life-boat for December of last year.
On the evening of the 23rd of Sep- tember, 1949,...
Mafeking and a Fishing Smack
AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...
A Governor of the Institution 15- Year-Old Nigel Rankin on Board Whitby Lifeboat Nigel Came to the Rnli Stand at the Boat Show With Over £10 He Had Saved from His Pock
A governor of the Institution, 15- year-old Nigel Rankin, on board Whitby lifeboat. Nigel came to the RNLI stand at the Boat Show with over £10 he had saved from his pocket money to join Shoreline.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
KISS OF LIFE
A 13-year-old’s quick thinking and love for his Dad keep them both alive when a February kayaking trip goes wrong
After a good breakfast, Paul Rowlands kissed his wife Julie goodbye and set off on an adventure with his son...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Peritia
TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE. — On the night of the 25th March signals of distress were seen to the eastward from the Coastguard station. On it being reported the Life-boat William and Mary Devey was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which...