LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pica
The RNLI's Rescue Survey - where people who have been rescued are given the opportunity to comment on the circumstances - is producing useful information both for the lifeboat service and for passing on as part of the Sea Safety...
A Night at the Opera...
Harrogate ladies lifeboat guild organised an evening entitled 'a Patchwork of Song', celebrating the RNLI's 175th and Opera North's 21st birthdays.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.43 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a man had fallen off., or had been washed off, the rocks at Clodgy Point. At 2.45 the IRB launched in a fresh west-north-westerly breeze and rough sea. The...
St. Nicholas
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Beggars Scalp off Seacliff coastguard look-out, but was in no apparent danger. Twenty...
Girl Pat
MAY 4TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At nine o’clock at night a lifeboatman saw a small boat in difficulties about one mile north-east of the east pier lighthouse.
The honorary secretary of the life-boat station was...
The Romanian Cargo Ship Savinesti
Blizzard ON THURSDAY MORNING February 15 a Romanian cargo ship, Savinesti, with 28 people on board was reported in distress 125° 37.5 miles from Spurn Point; she had engine failure and was dragging her anchor. After liaison (made more...
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday "season," DOW drawing to a close, has this year been an unusually successful one. The reports which we have received from all parts of the TJnited Kingdom clearly indicate that the movement has justified its...
Category: Articles
Life-Saving on the Shannon
THE Republic of Ireland's river Shannon, longest in these off-Europe islands, and, with its many lakes and tributary Grand Canal and river Barrow making it probably one of the largest single connected waterways in Europe, is becoming...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President—THE BIGHT Hon. EARL PERCY, P.G.
THE COMMITTEE or MANAGEMENT have to state that, during...
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Getting the Message
The equipment in everyday use aboard a lifeboat has developed to the point where it has evolved its own jargon, almost as arcane as the language of the sea itself. In this, the first of an occasional series on the technicalities of lifeboats...
Category: Articles