LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Century Record
Miss E. Dobie, ex-president of the Dunoon ladies' life-boat guild, reported late last year that one of their oldest guild members, Miss Oswald, had celebrated her hundredth birthday.
She lives at Kilmun, near Dunoon,...
Category: Articles
Working With a Helicopter
Working with a helicopter demands precision, and overcoming the racket and spray from the rotor's downwash. Plugged in to the lifeboat's intercom Charlie Hodson gives the chopper the green flag to come in (left), and the winchman... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat (1)
Margate, Kent.—25th July, 1939.
A small rowing boat was drifting out with a boy in it, but before the lifeboat arrived it was found by a motor boat. The boy was exhausted and, after he had been given water and chocolate...
A Bishop's Interest
AN exercise of the life-boat at Barra Island was held in November, 1951, during a visit to the island of the Bishop of Argyll and Isles. This was his first trip in a life-boat.
The bishop had been very anxious to make it,...
Category: Articles
A Small Motor Boat
OCTOBER 19TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
A small motor boat, attached to the Air Ministry, with only one man on board, had got lost in a dense fog, but she was eventually picked up by a Gourdon fishing boat, thirteen miles from her...
A Motor Boat and a Rowing Boat
MEN FOUND IN ROWING BOAT AFTER SEARCH Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the l l t h October. 1962. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three fishermen had set off at eight o'clock the morning...
A Pilot Boat
At about 6 P.M., on the 12th March, two men put off in a pilot boat to pull a line set at sea. It was too dark to find it and they tried to get into harbour again, and twice were driven back, the boat shipping heavy seas. The third time they...
A Rowing Boat
RABBIT-CATCHERS MAROONED Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Shortly after seven in the evening of the 22nd of December, 1947, information was received from Melness, Sutherlandshire, thirty-five miles to the eastwards, that two men were marooned on the...
It's a Small World
Model lifeboats and their builders raise large sums of money for the RNLI each year, and to further the cause an anonymous donor has provided a perpetual trophy in the name of the RNLI which will be awarded to the best model entered for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Yacht
8th July. A small yacht stranded on the Hook Sands, but was refloated.— Rewards, £14 18s. Qd..