LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Run up to Christmas
It’s time to get in training for a Reindeer Run near you (just think how many mince pies you’ll burn off in advance)!
This year, the RNLI’s most festive fundraiser will take place at 13 different venues in late November...
Category: Articles
A Centenarian's Last Gift
THE Institution has received from the family of Mrs. Barber, of Haslemere, Surrey, who died in June at the age of 102, a gift of twelve guineas. - This gift is the response, from twenty-nine of her family and friends, to...
Category: Donations
Lifeboat Lexicon
Sea users have a language all of their own, and when you add the terms brought in by new technology and the demands of a specialised operation such as the lifeboat service the potential for confusion can be enormous! In The Lifeboat we try...
Category: Articles
A Lifeboatman Wearing the Current Closed Cell Foam Design
A Lifeboatman Wearing The Current Closed Cell Foam Design. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
International Boat Show By Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer Rnli
Earls Court, London, January 6 to 16 A SHOP WINDOW FOR THE WORK OF THE RNLIA YEAR OF NATIONAL CELEBRATION for the 25 years of Her Majesty The Queen's reign began for lifeboat supporters in January at the 1977 International Boat Show in...
Category: Articles
(Left) the Lifeboat the First Fibre Reinforced Composite Boat to Enter Rnli Service Alongside the Depot Quay for the Ceremony
(left) The lifeboat, the first fibre reinforced composite boat to enter RNLI service, alongside the depot quay for the ceremony. - View image in PDF
(photos courtesy Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four Days of Gales. Six Launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
DUEING the gale on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th of November there were six launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. The crew of the Cromer station were out on service continuously for forty-five hours, while...
Category: Services
Eight-Year-Old Michael Summerfied
Eight-year-old Michael Summerfied warms himself with a blanket as he comes ashore after being rescued from his parent's yacht by Whitstable lifeboat - photo Whitstable Times. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service Abroad
UNITED STATES.
THE Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ending 30th June, 1913, states that 73 lives were lost on the coasts (which includes the coast of the Great...
Category: Articles
Rescue from a Shelled Steamer. Spanish Ship Attacked Off Cromer
SHORTLY after three in the afternoon of 2nd November, 1938, the coastguard at Cromer reported flashes and gun fire at sea. The firing shook the windows, and people, who crowded to the cliffs, could see the flashes. With binoculars, a large...
Category: Services