LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
When Major-General and Mrs Farrant Visited South Wales at the End of November Mrs Farrant Presented a Ship''s Bell to Coxswain Edward Powell and the Crew of the Ba
When Major-General and Mrs Farrant visited South Wales at the end of November, Mrs Farrant presented a ship''s bell to Coxswain Edward Powell and the crew of the Barry 52' lifeboat Arun. It was to commemorate the first visit she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Under the Bridges of Dublin Sailed Three Students from Trinity College Last Year Keith Lee Paddy Benson and Ciaran Mcguckian
Under the bridges of Dublin sailed three students from Trinity College last year. Keith Lee, Paddy Benson and Ciaran McGuckian braved a temperature of only 2 degrees centigrade, a 25 knot wind and flour and egg bombing from fellow students... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Stitch In Time
A stitch in time...
could save a lifeboat from launching The RNLI has started an initiative to slow the seemingly inexorable increase in lifeboat launches - by working to prevent incidents occurring in the first...
Category: Articles
Mr. J. E. Jones (Left), President of the Neptune Swimming Club, Hackney, London, Handing a Cheque for Over £170 to Mr. George Powell,Of the R.N.L.I.'s Wembley Office, the Proceeds of Which W
Mr. J. E. Jones (left), president of the Neptune Swimming Club, Hackney, London, handing a cheque for over £170 to Mr. George Powell,of the R.N.LI.'s Wembley office, the proceeds of which were raised through a sponsored swim... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grand Celebration
In October 1989 the Lytham St Annes Ladies' Lifeboat Luncheon Club celebrated its 25th anniversary, and at a party held to celebrate this, and the director's, 25 years with the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles was asked to help cut the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alabama, of Goole
HUNSTANTON.—Early on the 14th April the schooner Alabama, of Goole, while on a voyage from Cliff Creek to Hull was wrecked on the Woolpack Sands, during a gale at E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. The Life-boat Licensed Victualler...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 11.36 on the morning of the 4th of January, 1958, the assistant inspector of Irish Lights told the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the Blackwater lightvessel. As there was no Irish...
The Smiths Knoll Lightvessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 12.13 early on the morn- ing of the 26th of April, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the Smiths Knoll lightvessel was uncon- scious and needed a...
The Spanish Longliner Xisti
Arun at sea for nine hours in winds gusting to lOOmph The Arun class lifeboat City of Bradford, at Ballyglass during the new station's twelve-month evaluation period, carried out a long and arduous service on 11 February which earned the...
Join the crew
There’s a new reason to be a member of Storm Force, the RNLI club for children. Crew Room is a new RNLI website packed with extra goodies exclusively for Storm Force members.
Members get a password to unlock new RNLI games...
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