LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Drawn Into a New Car
Car Draw winner Miss Daphne Knights (left) is pictured with Anne Wilkins, the RNLI's regional organiser for Greater London collecting her new Volvo from Tamplins Volvo dealership in Croydon. Miss Knights current car is pictured right, a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Teens saved from rip current
26 May: Coldingham Bay Two teenagers thought they were safe paddling in shallow water, but the strong current soon pulled them far out to sea. Luckily, lifeguards Giordano Ceccarelli and Nick Campbell spotted...
Category: Articles
Wrist Watch Awarded to Fourteen-Year-Old Boy
About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 10th June, 1962, Harry Christopher Duffy, a fourteen-year-old boy, heard two girl swimmers who were in the sea off Lake Pier, Hamworthy, Dorset, shouting. He was canoeing with other members of...
Category: Awards
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1890
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Category: Services
Coxswain Joe Martin of Hastings
Coxswain Joe Martin of Hastings was awarded his town's highest honour when, on October 31, 1984, at a civic ceremony he was presented with The Order of 1066.
Mayor of Hastings, Councillor R. Saunders, praised Joe... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brooks & Bentley
The enchanting poem 'Footprints' has touched many lives with its tender and simple message of hope. Evoking a powerful image of Cod carrying us through times of trouble, this deeply moving passage has inspired the master goldsmiths...
Category: Advertisement
The Four-Masted S.S. Eider, of Bremen (1)
ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 21 August 1992 show that so far during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 2,362 times (an average of more than 10 launches a day) 583 lives have been saved (an average of more...
Category: Articles
Contributions from Shipping Companies
As readers of The Lifeboat know, we have for some time been urging on the shipping community the claims of the Institution to their generous support, since it maintains a national service in which they are more directly interested than any...
Category: Articles
Invergordon By Dag Pike
THE CHANGING PATTERN of Casualties around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland has led to the replacement of many traditional lifeboats by the faster inshore lifeboats; they are more suited to the type of casualty involved. In the...
Category: Articles