LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Saturday Club
The Saturday Club for deaf and partially hearing children aged 8 to 16, Newport, Isle of Wight, includes many outdoor activities in its programme, and four weeks of special efforts for the RNLI culminated in an exhibition football match... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Long-Standing Supporters of the R.N.L.I.
IN the June, 1968, number of THE LIFE-BOAT three companies which have given the R.N.L.I. valuable financial support over a number of years were mentioned.
Continuing the series, we describe three more...
Category: Donations
Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned
SUPPORTED 80LXLY ET VOLONTAM OOKTEIBDnOHS.
jjotaram — g Services of the Life-boats of the Institution in 1881.
Agnes, schooner, of Llanelly .... 6 Albion, schooner, of Southampton 4 Aldebaran,...
Category: Articles
Burton-On-Trent September 27 1986:
Burton-on-Trent, September 27, 1986: specially brewed commemorative beer was the unusual souvenir item on sale when Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat. Burton Brewer, was handed over to the station in Burton-on-Trent. The Midlands... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Drama on deck
22 August 2012: Bembridge lifeboat crew mounted a delicate operation to remove a man with a broken ankle from an oil tanker. The rescue helicopter had been grounded due to heavy fog, so the crew had to stretcher...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Cerne
Whitby, Yorkshire. — At 5.15 in the morning of the 13th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, information was re- ceived that a steamer was on the rocks to the south of the East Pier, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth was...
Second Coxswain Keith Bower Torbay: 'When We Got Down Off the Shore a Little Bit We "Tacked" Putting the Wind First on One Bow and Then on the Other'
Second Coxswain Keith Bower, Torbay: 'When we got down off the shore a little bit we "tacked", putting the wind first on one bow and then on the other'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Spidola
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 14th of February, 1948, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore in a thick fog to the south-east of the South Stack Light- house, and at 8.32 the motor life-boat A.E.D. was...
The Destroyer H.M.S. Trafalgar
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1953, the destroyer H.M.S. Trafalgar arrived off St.
Helier, anchored one mile south-south- west of Elizabeth Castle and landed one hundred and fifty libertymen.<...
The Arklow Lightvessel
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1957, the Irish Lights Office asked if the lifeboat could launch to land the master of the Arklow lightvessel, whose wife was dangerously ill. The life-boat Inbhear Mor was...