LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Service In 1943.
In 1943 life-boats rescued 469 lives and helped to save 47 boats and vessels from destruction. Of their 411 launches, 249, or nearly two-thirds, were to ships and aeroplanes in distress on account of the war. Life-boatmen won 30 medals for...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Boat Curlew
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.25 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boats had left Tobermory to search for a converted ship's boat, which had broken down off Mingary,...
The Crew Approach Cautiously,
The crew approach cautiously, aware that on-board distress flares could explode at any moment. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A week in the sun
The south of England saw some gorgeous weather in June and early July, with crowds flocking to the Dorset coast. But it wasn’t fun in the sun for everyone, as RNLI lifeguards found while patrolling the beaches
The unbroken...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Bulk Carrier Blix
Injured seaman THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station was asked at 1600 on Tuesday October 14, 1980, if an injured seaman could be taken off the Norwegian bulk carrier Blix. A rendezvous was arranged for midnight in Dublin...
Raymond Taylor Mbe,
Raymond Taylor MBE, Cullercoats branch president, Raymond first served the Cullercoats crew when he was just 14 and later went on to become second coxswain and senior helmsman of the lifeboat.
Following his retirement at 50...
Category: Obituaries
The Parliamentary Inquiry. The Management Vindicated and Justified
IN view of the constant serious and un- founded charges against the administration of the Institution which have for the last few years been made in certain quarters and diligently circulated, mainly through the medium of the Press, such...
Category: Articles
Of the Four Periods In the History of the Lifebout the First Covering the Days of the Pulling and Sailing Boats Is By Far the Longest Launch of the 35Ft Liverpool Lifeboat Samuel Lewis at Skegness In
Of the four periods in the history of the litcbodt. lilt' f i r s t , covering the days of the pulling ami sailing bouts, is by far the longest. Launch of the .Ifft Liverpool lifeboat Samuel Lewis tit Skegness in 1906.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ex-German Yacht Pirol
JUNE 25TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.50 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned a report from the east pier watchman that, the ex-German yacht Pirol, which had left harbour for Portsmouth, manned by five R.A.F. men, had grounded on the Brake...
The New Lerwick Life-Boat Arrives at Her Station
The New Lerwick Life-Boat Arrives at Her Station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs