LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (1)
Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
In September 1969 the RNLI Placed Its First Order for New Fast Boats to Be Built With Grp (Glass Reinforced Plastic) Hulls Known As the Mclachlan the Initial Batch W
In September, 1969, the R.N.L.I, placed its first order for new fast boats to be built with GRP (glass reinforced plastic) hulls. Known as the McLachlan, the initial batch was built by Messrs.
William Osborne Ltd. at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One of Our Younger Shoreline Members: Zoe Ballantyne of Shorne Kent Zoe Who Obviously Enters Into the Spirit of the Service With a Will Is Eighteen Months Old Have We
One of our younger Shoreline members: Zoe Ballantyne of Shorne, Kent. Zoe, who obviously enters into the spirit of the service with a will, is eighteen months old. Have we a more junior member ?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Membership News
Can you help? A message from Corporate Fundraising Manager Barbara Trousdell: Do you have a few hours to spare for a couple of weeks a year? Would you like to become involved in making sure local promotions in aid of the Institution run...
Category: Articles
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. The Chief Inspector of Life-Boats Retires
COMMANDER PHILIP EDWARD VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- boats, retired from the service of the Institution on the 30th of June of this year. He had been chief inspector since the 1st of January, 1939.
Commander...
Category: Articles
Station Profile
Skegness is a holidaymaker's town with tourism being by far the main industry. The winter population of just 15,000 rises to around 170,000 during the summer bringing major traffic problems - which can badly delay the crew on their way...
Category: Articles
Endeavour,Progress, Easter Morn,Prosperity,Venus, et al
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 18th February, 1939, a fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. It was breaking heavily from the Pier Ends to the Rock Buoy, and anxiety was felt for the safety of nine of the local motor...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 14 November 1988, show that so far in 1988: The RNLI's lifeboats had been launched 3,387 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,099 lives had been saved (an average of...
Category: Articles
Father and Daughter Save Seven
The Institution has also made rewards to a fisherman and his daughter at St. Andrews who rescued seven lives from a capsized sailing boat in a strong squally wind and choppy sea..
Category: Articles
French Life-Boat Society
THE two French Life-boat societies have now been re-formed under one authority. This will be known as the 'Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer'.
The President of the new society will be Admiral Amman. His...
Category: Articles