LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hartlepool's 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat the Scout Launched
Hartlepool's 44ft Waveney lifeboat The Scout launched on December 4, 1983, under the command of Coxswain Robert Maiden to go to the help of a fishing boat Sea Spell whose engine was giving trouble. There was a fresh to strong breeze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI Team That Went to Mozambique
The RNLI team that went to Mozambique in March last year helped to save thousands of lives. The new Rapid Reaction Unit will continue this vital lifesaving effort.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 8.—The Dover Life-Boat for the Help of Aeroplanes
AT Dover is stationed the only motor life-boat of this type, specially designed for the special conditions of the Straits, across which there is not only the heavy passenger steamer traffic, but a con- siderable daily traffic by aeroplanes,...
Category: Articles
The Naming of the 52Ft Arun Relief Lifeboat Sir Max Aitken
THE BACK GARDEN of the harbourside house of Sir Max Aitken, whose name she now bears, was the unique setting for the naming ceremony of the RNLI's newest 52ft Arun class lifeboat at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Saturday May 2. The...
Category: Inaugurations
The New Stromness Life-Boat at Guernsey
Left to right: Commander Hairier, Mr. Randell (at the wheel). Commander Drury, the Lieuten nt-Governor. the Bailiff of Guernsey, and Mr. Frampton. In front: Mr. Small.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Royal Naval Motor Vessel Santa Cruz
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—At 8.10 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1957, the St. Abbs Head lighthouse-keeper reported that a small vessel had fired two rockets half a mile north-east of the lighthouse. At 8.20 the life-boat W. Ross...
Fig 2: Looking Forward from the Transom
Fig. 2: Looking forward from the transom down the fast slipway lifeboat's starboard propeller tunnel. Further protection will be given to the propellers by deep bilge keels not yet fitted.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother presents the certificate of honorary life governorship to Carl Giles at the presentation of awards meeting on May 15.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mayor of Poole Picks the Winners
Councillor Bill Wratham, the Mayor of Poole, (pictured left with David Brann, RNLI Marketing Manager) dropped by RNLI Headquarters in April to draw the winning tickets of the 89th national lifeboat lottery.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Wreck on the Cornish Coast
WE have, on a previous page, given an account of the loss of valuable lives occasioned by an accident to a life-boat. The following is an interesting'and affecting narrative of the loss of a valuable life, illustrative of another phase...
Category: Articles