LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st December to 29th February: Launches 201, lives saved 67 DECEMBER No. 3 Life-boat Area Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 8.49 p.m.
on 16th December, 1967, the coastguard informed...
Category: Services
Cromer's New No. 2 Life-Boat Waiting to Be Drawn Up the Beach By Tractor
Cromer's New No 2 Life-Boat Waiting To Be Drawn Up The Beach By Tractor. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Celia's supporting role
A stellar acting career and a passion for the sea unite in Celia Imrie’s latest role – and thoughts of lifeboats are never far away
As someone who regularly takes the ferry journey from...
Category: Articles
How You Are Likely to End Up After Competing In the 'Daft Raft Race' Organised By Shetland Branch of the Scottish Sub-Aqua Club In Lerwick Harbour Crews and Their Craft In Last May's Race Were
How you are likely to end up after competing in the 'Daft Raft Race' organised by Shetland branch of the Scottish Sub-Aqua Club in Lerwick Harbour. Crews and their craft in last May's race were judged for ingenuity, bravery... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Time and time again comes the news that a branch or guild has passed all its previous achievements. There is Swansea which, with special efforts for Jubilee year, raised a record of £3,214. Then, at Lymington, the branch and guild...
Category: Donations
The Cadet Training Barge Kenya Jacaranda
At 4.30 p.m. on 6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a Thames spritsail barge was aground on Margate Hook sands and asked if the IRB could investigate. She had not fired any distress signals but appeared to be in...
CONTAINER SHIP COLLISION
RAMSGATE | 13 NOVEMBER
It was an early Sunday morning wake-up call for Ramsgate’s lifeboat crew, when their pagers went off just before 8am. A small yacht had collided with a container ship 24 miles east of Ramsgate, and was...
Category: Services
A new life with the RNLI
Whether they’re facing the toughest conditions at sea or giving tireless hours to fundraise, RNLI volunteers show enormous dedication to saving lives at sea. We meet five people who left home in search of a new life – and found the...
Category: Articles
Fibre-Glass Dory
The standard hull of the Dell Quay dory, referred to on page 464, has been used in the R.N.L.I.'s new experimental boat, but it has been strengthened to enable it to take the steering console.
The hull is of composite...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (3)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — 18th September, 1939. A rowing boat with a boy and girl on board had been reported as missing and the life-boat put out, but was recalled as the boat had been found.—Rewards £10 5s..