LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A watchful eye
Station volunteers foresaw disaster when seven adventurous children met the elements
Midday on 26 May was cold and blustery and Clogher Head Lifeboat Operations Manager Declan Levins was at the...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats. Holyhead, Skegness, Fleetwood, St. Ives, and Anstruther
Holyhead, Skegness, Fleetwood, St. Ives, and Anstruther.
THE inaugural ceremony of the new motor life-boat stationed at Holyhead (Anglesey), took place on 13th June, in the presence of some 2,000 people.
Category: Inaugurations
"Tar and Grease."
Hand over Hand Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFUKD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" The items expended on this work were tar and grease."—Honorary Secretary's...
Category: Songs
The Old Boys' Association of Maisie Graham Sea Training School Scarborough Has Been Presented With This Fine Model Lifeboat By Its Maker Mr G Dawson and During Social Functions It Has Alr
The Old Boys' Association of Maisie Graham Sea Training School, Scarborough, has been presented with this fine model lifeboat by its maker, Mr G. Dawson and during social functions it has already inspired contributions to the RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SUNSHINE greeted lifeboat people from all parts of the country who began to gather on South Bank, by the River Thames, early on Tuesday May 11 for what was to be a most moving and memorable day.
It was a day which...
Category: Awards
The Rig Safety Vessel Spearfish
RSV aground 'WE CANNOT hold out much longer—• bumping heavily.' It was 0520 on January 12, just five minutes after extension trawler, now rig safety vessel, Spearfish reported to the Coastguard at Lerwick,Shetland Islands, that she...
The S.S. Protesilaus
JANUARY 2 1ST. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 9.15 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel, which was thought to have been mined, was sinking about six miles W.S.W. of Mumbles Head. The sea was smooth, with a...
The Life-Boat Service In 1952
FOR the third year, in the seven years since the war ended, the Life-boat Service set up a new record. In 1952 its boats went out to the rescue 657 times. That is more than ever before in time of peace, and though the figure is considerably...
Category: Articles
HANDS TO THE PUMP
THURSO | 11 FEBRUARY
The two-man crew of a fishing boat called for help in the small hours when their engine room started filling with water off Dunnet Head. Thurso lifeboat crew reached the scene at 5am to transfer a salvage pump...
Category: Articles
The H.M.S. Hannibal
'At 5 P.M. on the 6th December a telephone message was received from H.M.S. Hannibal request- ing the Life-boat to proceed to the as- sistance of a vessel which had stranded on the Skerries. The Motor Life-boat John A. Hay was dispatched...