LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Electrical Communication on the Coast
DURING the last three years good progress has been made with the all-important system of electrical communication on the coast for life-saving purposes, pro- moted by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. The majority of the most...
Category: Articles
News
Dear Reader Welcome to the summer 2006 issue of the Lifeboat. Do let us know what you think of it.
Have a look at the 'News' and 'Dispatches' sections to get up to date with the RNLI family then linger...
Category: Articles
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1895-96
FOR THE YEAR 1895-96. ( SHO VING ALSO THE PRE LIFE BOAT STATIONS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION..
Category: Charts
Dispatches
Dispatches ’Twas the season … Thousands of RNLI volunteers around the UK and Republic of Ireland were on call over the recent holiday period. It’s too early for 2006 statistics, but from Christmas Eve 2005 to 2 January 2006 volunteer...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (38)
MARCH 20TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had crashed and sank immediately. Trawlers nearby picked up two landing wheels and an airman’s cap, but the life-boat and a rescue launch found nothing. - Rewards, £...
Cullercoats:
Cullercoats: Miss Diana Phillips afloat in the C class inflatable lifeboat partly funded by her gift in memory of her parents, Mr and Mrs H. A. Phillips; she was shown the lifeboat at RNLI Cowes base before it was sent to Cullercoats, where,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cross Sand Lightvessel
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1956, the local Superintendent of Trinity House rang up to say that a man on the Cross Sand lightvessel had been badly injured. He asked if the life-boat would take him ashore,...
Fishermen saved off Donegal
LOUGH SWILLY | 8 SEPTEMBER
Lough Swilly lifeboat crew rescued six fishermen and their sinking boat off the Donegal coast. The inshore and all-weather lifeboats launched at 3.15am. They found all six...
Category: Articles
Ocea (2)
Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...
Queen of the Fleet
Oa the 3rd October this Life-boat put off, during a fresh breeze from the N."W., and brought safely ashore from Puma Island 6 persons belonging to the barque Queen of the Fleet, bound from Carnarvon to Liverpool, which had stranded on...