LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yachts and Dinghies (1)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
H.M. Trawler Sir John List
DEC. 21ST. - DONAGHADEE CO DOWN. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities had reported a vessel ashore at the South Briggs.
A light N.W. wind was blowing. There were patches of fog, and the sea was...
Photographic Proof of the Unlikely Rumour That a Philanthropic Gorilla Was Spotted at the Earls Court Boat Show Whether It Was Fear That Encouraged the Public to Fill His Box Or Whether It Was the I
Photographic proof of the unlikely rumour that a philanthropic gorilla was spotted at the Earls Court Boat Show. Whether it was fear that encouraged the public to fill his box or whether it was the irresistible music of his pirate captor is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Greek Freighter Skopelos Sky
Stood by in storm ON SATURDAY December 15, 1979, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station that a vessel three miles north west of Trevose Head had transmitted a mayday distress signal and needed immediate...
The Chief Inspector Retires
THE retirement of Commander T. G.
Michelmore, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, takes effect from the 30th of June, 1958.
Commander Michelmore joined the Life-boat Service as a...
Category: Articles
One hot August weekend lifeboats launched around 200 times. With the average launch cost for an all weather boat being £5,800 and £2,200 for an inflatable, the two days cost the RNLi almost £700,000 for launches alone
One hot August weekend lifeboats launched around 200 times. With the average launch cost for an all weather boat being £5,800 and £2,200 for an inflatable, the two days cost the RNLi almost £700,000 for launches... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Life-Boat Diary
"Ship" Ha'pennies for Life-boats A LARGE tin containing a thousand ha'pennies, all with the "ship" design on one side, has been given by Mr.
Henry Broom and his daughter Betty, of Bedford,...
Category: Articles
Disaster at St. Ives. Seven Life-Boatmen Lost
THREE minutes before two in the morn- ing of 23rd January. 1939, the honorary secretary of the St. Ives life-boat station was rung up by the district officer of coastguard, who told him that a vessel was in a dangerous position two miles N.N...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Crews. No. III
A CONSIDERABLE number of the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION are manned by "boatmen," a term comprising men who employ several different means of obtaining their living in boats, but chiefly applied to...
Category: Articles
Below: Some of the Myriad Items Made at Cowes Inshore Lifeboat Centre
Below: Some of the myriad items made at Cowes Inshore Lifeboat Centre to turn mflatables into inflatable lifeboats intrigue young visitors.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs