LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary
Broken in two A MESSAGE from HM Coastguard was received by New Brighton lifeboat station at 1438 on Saturday July 11 to say that a motorboat, Mary, was in trouble off New Brighton bathing pool; she was taking in water.
The...
Ceremonies
Silloth - Atlantic 75 Spirit of Cumbria and new lifeboat house St Bees - new lifeboat house Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent had a busy two days in October when, during a tour of Cumbria, she named one lifeboat and opened two new...
Category: Inaugurations
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
Category: Services
Credit cards closing
It is with regret that the RNLI is required to close all Lifeboats MasterCard accounts after more than 20 successful years.
Since its introduction, the Lifeboats MasterCard has generated over £1M in charitable...
Category: Articles
Platform for This Photograph of the Liberian Tanker Ocean Liberty, Aground at the Mouth of the Tees In February, Was the Teesmouth Life-Boat
Platform For This Photograph of the Liberian Tanker Ocean Liberty Aground at The Mouth of the Tees In February Was The Teesmouth Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
5: Channel Track of Little Turntable (Left) on Which She Can Be Swung Round to Convenient Position for Mounting on Carriage Tractor Moves Round Carriage
5: Channel Track Of Little Turntable (Left) On Which She Can Be Swung Round To Convenient Position For Mounting On Carriage Tractor Moves Round Carriage. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Councillor K J Holland Mayor of Skegness and a Former Coxswain and Jack Roughton Chairman of the Lincolnshire Appeal Lay Foundation Stones for Skegness'
Councillor K. J. Holland, mayor of Skegness and a former coxswain, and Jack Roughton, chairman of the Lincolnshire appeal, lay foundation stones for Skegness's new lifeboat station. (Photo Bob Lawrence). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Coaster Lady Kamilla
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 10th March, 1867, the schooner Squire, of Yarmouth, was observed making for the shore in a disabled state, a heavy gale blowing from E.N.E. at the time. -The North Briton life-boat was soon launched, and...
Category: Services