LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Penguin
At 9.5 P.M. on the 27th July a telephone message was received from the coastguard that flares of distress were being shown one mile N.E. of Rhyl Pier. A strong and increasing W.N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was rough. The pulling...
Alan Clarke
Alan Clarke Helmsman of the Hunstanton Atlantic 21 Spirit of America. Awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for taking off an injured man from the MFV Portunus under tow in the Wash in Force 9 winds,short steep seas and total darkness... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summer giving
Last Summer, we appealed to RNLI supporters to make a donation to help support our volunteer crews.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to our Summer appeal, which raised a total of £1,209,077. Your support is...
Category: Articles
On the South East Coast.
It is on the South East coast that the calls for the life-boats have been most frequent. Walmer has been launched 50 times and rescued 85 lives; Ramsgate 52 times and rescued 168 lives; Margate 60 times and rescued 150 lives. That is a total...
Category: Articles
Book Corner
more than its members generally realise, upon seamen and the ships they manned. Take away the common sailor and the craft in which, down the centuries, he has carried goods through tempest and fog, past innumerable natural and man-made...
Category: Articles
On your bike!
Millions of people use their bicycles each week in the UK and Republic of Ireland, many for commuting. But it's also a great way to challenge yourself, get fitter and even raise charity funds. Lifeboat volunteer Chris...
Category: Articles
"One More for the Life-Boat Crew."
The lads are afloat, they have launched the boat Where the moaning storm-birds flew, Oh, wife ! from the shores they cry,' One more,' With strong, steady hand and true! There are lives to save On the frothing wave— One more for the...
Category: Poetry
Reussite
At 3.45 P.M. on j the 15th January information was j received that a schooner was ashore on the West Tongue Sands requiring assistance. The No. I Life-boat Eliza Harriet was launched, and on arriving at the Sands, found the schooner Beussite...
Calypso, of Wallasey, St. Trillo
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Prototypes of a New Fast Slipway Lifeboat
WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...
Category: Articles