LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Win a Car
MR. DONALD STEWARD, of The Grange, New Buckenham, Norwich, Norfolk, is organizing a national competition in aid of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, based on the attendance at the 1967 Motor Show. The first prize will be a new motor...
Category: Articles
Sailing on Through Stormy Seas
Highlights from the Chairman's report to the Annual General Meeting on 22 May 2003At the Lifeboats AGM in May, Chairman Peter Nicholson looked back over another successful year, but warned that the Institution needs to react to a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI Volunteers Keep Evacuees Safe In Flood Waters
RnLI volunteers keep evacuees safe in fl ood waters. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
• The history of Britain's Coastguard is an extraordinarily colourful one, and it is surprising that hitherto no full history of the service has been published.
The deficiency has now been made good by William Webb in...
Category: Articles
Jeannie Slessor
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 23rd of February, 1950, information was re- ceived from St. Combs and the coast- guard that a small fishing boat was in distress. At 4.13 the life-boat John and Charles...
Emma Walker
SUNDERLAND, NORTH DOCK.—While a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a very rough sea and torrents of sleet and rain, on the 26th October, the ketch Emma Walker, of Sunderland, laden with coal for Wick, attempted to enter the...
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St...
Category: Services
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The Winter 1906 Life-boat Journal featured a letter of thanks to the Broadstairs lifeboat crew, Kent, after they had launched into a south westerly gale and...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE weekend of 15th/16th August, 1970, was the busiest the life-boat service has known in its entire history. Winds of force 10 or more were blowing, and there was a spate of activity by both life-boats and inshore rescue boats, par-...
Category: Articles
Argonaut
At 12.55 a.m. on igth September, 1966, the motor fishing vessel Argonaut of Kirkaldy, was reported ashore on the Cairns of Coll after a May-day call. The life-boat E. M. M. Colby Cubbin was launched at 1.15 in a light southerly wind and a...