LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Sprat Boats
FOUR SPRAT BOATS Wells, Norfolk. At 5.20 p.m. on aist November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen north-west of the coastguard lookout. There was a strong gale from the west-south-west with a...
House Style
The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager, Howard Richings, looks at the way that lifeboat houses have changed to reflect the changing demands made upon them In the early years RNLI boathouses were very basic.
Resources were scarce...
Category: Articles
Bbc Television Appeal: Raymond Baxter Chairman
BBC Television Appeal: Raymond Baxter, chairman of the Public Relations Committee and a member of the Committee of Management, aboard Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Arun lifeboat and surrounded by the filming and recording team during the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Record Year
THE work of the Life-boat Service does not grow less. It is actually increasing.
In spite of all that is being done, by new inventions, to make travel by sea safer as well as more comfortable, 146 more calls were made for...
Category: Articles
Foreign Life-Boat Services. II
The United States (State Service.
Established 1848).
Since the publication of our extensive note on this Service in the November issue of The Lifeboat we have received the Annual Report of the U.S....
Category: Services
Penlee Life-Boat Approaches French Crabber
(see page 286). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Far Left: Crew Members from Burnham-On-Crouch
Far left: Crew members from Burnham-on- Crmich, in Essex, receive free training from Cannington College for their new quad bike, donated by Western Power Distribution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sam Weller
During a moderate S.S.W. gale on the 27th January a vessel was observed by the Coastguard stranded on the main about two miles north of Palling. The crew and helpers were speedily called, and the Palling No. 1 Life-boat, 5ith West Norfolk...
Mfv 'southern Scott Stranded on Old Bath's Beach Just to the North East of Peel Harbour Isle of Man In the Early Hours of March 29 Was By Morning Being Driven Further Aground By North West
MFV 'Southern Scott, stranded on Old Bath's Beach just to the north east of Peel Harbour, Isle of Man, in the early hours of March 29, was by morning being driven further aground by north west gale force winds and pounded by heavy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steam Trawler
MARCH 29TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 10.30 in the morning the honorary secretary was on watch on the cliffs above Ballycotton when he saw a steam trawler about eight and a half miles south of Ballycotton. She was blowing off steam, as if...