LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Burry Port
This is what to do with your lifeboat after she has come out of service for the winter: push her for 12 miles along the road between Burry Port, Dyfed, and Loughor, pass a few pubs on the way and with the sponsorship collected in each pub... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Clacton Lifeboat Station
To commemorate the RNLI's 160th year, an amateur radio station was set up for a weekend in August at Clacton lifeboat station, thanks to the co-operation of the crew and honorary secretary. Its 12 operators were drawn from Harlow Radio... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
They Did It
They did it. They, (I to r) Steve Huntley, Mike Ogwo, Paul Savage, Tony Jeffery, Gary Brooks, Peter Cowup and Mick Newman, ran in relays the 80 miles between Margate lifeboat station and Islington fire station. The time taken by these seven... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Barry Bennett Has Been Coxswain of St.Mary's, Isles of Scilly Lifeboat Since 1991.
Today's lifeboatmen Barry Bennett has been coxswain of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly lifeboat since 1991.
Barry, who is a fisherman, first joined the crew in 1979 and served as second coxswain from 1985 until his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Torridge Warrior
Fishing vessel towed to safety in storm force winds Appledore and Ilfracombe lifeboats were both involved in a service to a fishing vessel near Bideford Bar on 31 March 1994. Coxswain Michael Bowden of Appledore lifeboat was awarded the...
Holly
Twelve minutes of terror It took Port Talbot's inshore lifeboat crew just a few minutes to save a life at sea but the three found their training and courage tested to the limit On the morning of 10 January 2006 a call came through to...
Foreign Life-Boat Stations
As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...
Category: Articles
Coast-Guard Fixing the Life-Saving Rocket Preparatory to Firing
Coast-Guard Fixing The Life-Saving Rocket Preparatory To Firing. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Electrical Communication on the Coast for Lifesaving Purposes
THE resolution of the House of Commons so unanimously passed last Session at the instance of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, on the motion of its Chairman, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., relative to the establishment of a...
Category: Articles