LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Skilful Rescue In Unknown Waters
AT 12.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952 the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides that the crew of a local motor boat, the Mayflower, were marooned on rocks.
The...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 21st May, 1920.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Major-General Sir COLERIDGE GROVE, K.C.B., who had been a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution...
Category: Committee
A Whaler
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 19th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that parachute flares had been reported seven to ten miles west-north-west of Rhyl. There was...
Award of Medals, Gratuities, Etc
THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIP- WRECK have voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instru- mental in saving lives during the year 1852...
Category: Articles
Rude awakening
There was an early wake-up call for Tenby lifeboat crew in September when a lone sailor found himself aground amid pounding waves
The lone yachtsman aboard his 7m boat Maridadi had dropped...
Category: Articles
The Replica 12th Century Long Boat Aileach
Longboat's steering fails 40 miles north of Cape WrathSome of the latest technology came to the aid of some of the earliest when Stromness lifeboat station's relief Arun class Newsbuoy was launched to the aid of a replica 12th...
Gnosall Branch
Say no more! Words fail Derek Ball of Gnosall branch, Staffordshire, as his wife Lynda gently persuades him to make yet another contribution to their lifeboat swear box. It has had more than £30 off him to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On December 18 Humber Lifeboat the 54Ft Arun City of Bradford Iv Towed Mfv Falke to Bridlington the Fishing Boat Had No Power Or Steering and Her Batteries Were
On December 18 Humber lifeboat, the 54ft Arun City of Bradford IV, towed MFV Falke to Bridlington. The fishing boat had no power or steering and her batteries were failing. photograph by courtesy of 'Hull Daily Mail'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seaman's Cartoonist Extraordinary Carl Giles Receiving His Lifeboatman Statuette for Outstanding Service to the Rnli In the Field of Public Relations from the Duke of Atholl
Seaman's Cartoonist extraordinary, Carl Giles, receiving his lifeboatman statuette for outstanding service to the RNLI in the field of public relations from the Duke of Atholl.
photograph by courtesy of the 'Daily... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Winners of the Rnli's Public Relations Awards on the Central Jetty at the London Boat Show After Their Presentation By Libby Purves - Writer and Member of The
Winners of the RNLI's Public Relations Awards on the central jetty at the London Boat Show after their presentation by Libby Purves - writer and member of the Public Relations Committee. From left to right, front row, Julian Ware... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs