LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Voluntary Spirit
Fortunately the age old advice 'never, ever volunteer' is as widely disregarded today as it was in Sir William Hillary's time. Richard Mann, the RNLI's Regions Manager, looks at some of the ways that the Institution is...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out on service on the morning of the 26th Jan., 1893, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Sarah, of and from Fowey for Runcorn, which had stranded on the...
Category: Services
The Oil Rig Orion
Oil rig aground ST PETER PORT SIGNALS STATION received an 'all ships' warning at about 1900 on Wednesday, February 1, 1978, saying that, at 1850, Orion had parted from the German tug Seefalke in position 49°39'N,...
Thoughts on the Art of Street Collecting By Clive Porter Second Coxswain Teesmouth Life-Boat
THERE is an art in most things, and carrying a collecting tin for the R.N.L.I.
can be of great interest. Nothing could be more absorbing than spending a day in the street persuading the public that our cause is worth...
Category: Articles
Erkalm
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 9.19 on the night of the 14th of March, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man was adrift in a small boat in St. Ives Bay. At 9.35 the life-boat Frank and William Gates, on temporary duty at the...
Y.L.A. Section
Recruiting Y.L.A. Members at Shows by Alasdair Garrett MEMBERSHIP of the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association has now reached 4,700—an increase of 2,000 in the last seven months. Y.L.A. members and other supporters of the...
Category: Articles
Cleethorpe's D Class Inflatable Lifeboat Crests a Wave Shortly After Launching on Exercise
Cleethorpe's D class inflatable lifeboat crests a wave shortly after launching on exercise. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Unusual Hazard for a Lifeboat - Three of the Ex-D Class Lifeboats Almost Surrounded By Floating Water Hyacinths at the Training Base Near Dacca
An Unusual Hazard For A Lifeboat - Three of the Ex-D Class Lifeboats Almost Surrounded By Floating Water Hyacinths at The Training Base Near Dacca. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Winchman Ernie Bennett Activates the Winch Which With a V-Shaped Bridle of Special Flexible Wire Hauls the Lifeboat Clear of the Water
Winchman Ernie Bennett activates the winch which, with a V-shaped bridle of special flexible wire, hauls the lifeboat clear of the water.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
Launches on service from 1st July to 3ist August, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small...
Category: Services