LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
North Berwick-Scotland Division Perched on the promentary at the very end of the Firth of Forth (seen stretching away in to the distance) North Berwick can be a rough place...
Category: Articles
Two Dinghies (6)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 14th October, 1915.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the...
Category: Committee
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Robert Lee, of the Douglas, l.o.M., life-boat fl. A ColbyGubbinNo.2. Appointed coxswain in April, 1950, he had been a member of the crew for many years. Coxswain Lee's grandfather was bowman until he was lost at sea while...
Category: Articles
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READER INSPIRATION: WORDS
I am a member of a writers’ group. Recently we were asked to write about a lighthouse. It brought me back to my childhood when I was always fascinated by the man in the lighthouse. Those times have passed...
Category: Articles
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Valentia - Ireland Division Valentia is the RNLI's westernmost lifeboat station, situated on the rugged coast of Co. Kerry, in south west Ireland. The Severn class...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Crew of two survive yacht fire and explosionTwo people and their dog had a very lucky escape last October when a fire and explosion ripped through their 27ft yacht.
Whitstable's Atlantic 21 was searching within 100...
Puffin
About 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March, the yawl | Puffin, of Wexford, with a crew of six hands, grounded on the west side of the bar, when coming into port from the fishing-grounds. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 15 were at once...
The Old Firm
IN 1789 William Wouldhave of South Shields, house-painter and teacher of singing, made his model of a life-boat which would self-right. In the same year Henry Greathead of South Shields built the first life-boat, the...
Category: Articles
Lora
Dover, Kent - At 7.40 a.m. on 26th May, 1969, Dover harbour board control tower informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties two and a half miles south west of Dover. At 7.55 the life-boat Faithful Forester slipped her...