LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
View of the Past:
View of the past: 'Hurry to the Rescue', a watercolour by George Owen dated 1893 and just one of the hundreds of exhibits at Sotheby's maritime exhibition Rule Britannia which runs from January 2 to 29, 1986 (closed January 6).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1920 The great difficulty in the way of Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses. It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of September 1919 in the somewhat flowery prose of the time the September 1919 issue of 'The Life-Boat' paid a tribute to a fictitious retiring lifeboatman under the heading 'The Old Coxswain'....
Category: Articles
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The Winter 1906 Life-boat Journal featured a letter of thanks to the Broadstairs lifeboat crew, Kent, after they had launched into a south westerly gale and...
Category: Articles
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
Category: Articles
The Coxswain and His Crew Put Off to the Rescue on Receipt of a Distress Call Received Through Hm Coastguard
The coxswain and his crew put off to the rescue on receipt of a distress call received through HM Coastguard.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Waves Breaking on the Sea-Wall
Waves Breaking on the Sea-Wall. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat lottery
SUMMER LOTTERY
Ms Oke of Cheshire scooped the £5,000 first prize in the Summer Lifeboat
Lottery and enjoyed a visit to Hoylake Lifeboat Station to celebrate her win.
Category: Articles
MAYDAY AT THE HARBOUR MOUTH
The lives of six fishermen are in danger. Their fishing boat is drifting dangerously close to shore. Powerless against the gale-force winds and sea swell, they need help – fast
It’s the end of a blustery October day in...
Category: Articles
News and Views
New Severn class lifeboat for Stornoway station It has recently been agreed by the executive committee of the RNLI that Stornoway will be allocated a new Severn class lifeboat.
In 1995, Stornoway was allocated the first...
Category: Articles