LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jessie
St. AGNES, SCILLY.—While a strong breeze from the E.S.E. was blowing on the 28th February, the smack Jessie, of Plymouth, which had lost her main-boom, was seen running into a dangerous position and the Life-boat James and Caroline was...
With the Little Ships at Dunkirk
Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...
Category: Articles
(Below) Rear View of the Jacket, Showing the Retro Reflective Tape on Its Safety Harness
(Below) Rear View of the Jacket, Showing The Retro Reflective Tape On Its Safety Harness. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Concorde Noses Down the Thames for Its Last Journey
One of the RNLI Thames lifeboats turned out to see Concorde making her final journey during April. It was an unusual event because instead of flying at an altitude of 11 miles, Concorde was 'sailing' along the Thames aboard a barge.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI and me: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
The father, chef, broadcaster, writer and campaigner on his marine passions
A lot of your work seems to be intertwined with the sea – why is that?
I’ve...
Category: Articles
Lee Johnson
Lee Johnson, the owner of a hairdressing salon in Lymington, raised £180 for the lifeboats with a raffle for a doll's house. He sold £90 worth of tickets himself and Lymington ladies' guild sold the rest.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
the Eglantine
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.50 P.M.
on the 17th January, 1939, the St.
Ann's Head coastguard reported that a French schooner was in distress two miles south of the Head. She was the Eglantine, of...
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of tho boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 303 Life-boat Stations...
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Three Men Jump from a Fishing Vessel
AT 5.2.3 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, a man at Aberdovey telephoned the Aberystwyth, Cardi- ganshire, life-boat station to say that a fishing vessel was in difficulties between Towyn and Aberdovey. Immediately afterwards the...
Category: Services
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeffrey Wright who, after serving for 10 years as bowman of the Fleetwood life-boat, was its coxswain from the autumn of 1933 until the end of 1947.
He won the silver medal for...
Category: Articles