LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-eighth Anniversary of this valuable Society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, on Friday, the 20th April, when its old and valued Chairman, Captain the Hon. FRANCIS MAUDE, R.N., presided with unabated...
Category: Meetings
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
Category: Correspondence
Heroes of the Oar. (From "Watchers By the Shore," With the Author's Permission.)
HIGH flies the spray, and landward leap The hungry savage seas, Whose white manes curl in seething hate Before the lashing breeze, That shrieks its thousand league-long self Across the spume-flecked waste, To line the coast with wrecks and...
Category: Poetry
A Brawn leader
He’s engineered glorious victories for the best drivers in the world – and now Ross Brawn’s formula for success is helping the RNLI build a new lifeboat.
Ross Brawn is no stranger to spending hours watching teams pit their...
Category: Articles
Historic Moment: The Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat Making Contact With Sir Francis Chichester's Yacht Gypsy Moth IV As She Neared the English Coast on 28th, May 1967, After her Voyage Round the World
Historic moment: the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat making contact with Sir Francis Chichester's yacht Gypsy Moth IV as she neared the English coast on 28th May, 1967, after her voyage round the world.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gallilean
Fishermen rescued AT 0840 ON MONDAY, September 14, 1987 Captain K R Holmes, Fleetwood lifeboat station honorary secretary was informed by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that the 55ft fishing vessel Gallilean was taking water about five miles west...
Histories of Six Life-Boat Stations. Rhyl, The Lizard, Tynemouth, Sennen Cove, Bembridge and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
DURING the past three years excellent histories have been written, and pub- lished locally, of six life-boat stations.
Rhyl celebrated its centenary in 1952,"and The Story of Rhyl's Life- boats, 1852 to 1952 was...
Category: Articles
Helicopters
In the House of Commons in April the Secretary of State for Defence was asked how many times in the last three years the helicopter then at Manston, Kent, had been used to assist in sea rescue operations, and how many people had been rescued...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Trip back in time
The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Collection is
housed at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent.
Among the exhibits in the RNLI display are the St Paul, an 1897 unrestored Norfolk and Suffolk-type lifeboat; the 1909-built...
Category: Articles