LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heart and home
Behind the scenes, a lifeboat station mechanic must be both meticulous and creative to keep the service running – and his fellows safe
Mark Blatcher is poring over wiring diagrams. He’s trying...
Category: Articles
Foreign Life-Boat Societies
DUHIXG 1952 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 12 British vessels and rescued over 40 lives from them.
Belgium Belgian life-boats went to the help of two British yachts, one of which was towed into harbour and the...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1892
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL, LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 30th day of April, 1892, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
Bolinders Company Ltd
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The RNLI are putting Penta outboards in their new inshore rescue craft. With Penta 360, these revolutionary Dell Quay 17ft fibreglass...
Category: Advertisement
Girl Christian and Minehead Angler
Escort LAND'S END COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 0150 on Thursday October 16, 1980, that the fishing vessel Girl Christian was reported to be in difficulties four miles north of Trevose Head.<...
Twenty-Five Years' Service:
Twenty-five years' service: Commander Bruce Cairns, RD, RNR, retired as chief of operations at the end of 1986. He joined the lifeboat service as a district inspector of lifeboats in 1961 and served in the Irish, South East and Southern... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Offshore Platform
Marooned on platform THAMES COASTGUARD contacted Aideburgh lifeboat station's honorary secretary on the afternoon of Wednesday October 24, 1984 and requested a launch to 12 maintenance menmarooned on an offshore platform which forms part...
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G., at Blackpool. Naming of Motor Life-Boat and Opening of New Boat-House
ON 21st October H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institu- tion, named the new motor life-boat at Blackpool and opened the new boat- house on a site, in the centre of the sea front, provided by the...
Category: Inaugurations
Some Fishing Crafts
On the 1st March, during a N.E. gale ac- ! companied by a heavy ground sea, in- ; formation was received that some of the fishing craft were in distress off' the j Head. The Life-boat at the No. 1 j station ...
Isaac Clark of Runswick: When He Retired Last Year He Had Given 59 Years of Service to His Station—20 Years As a Crew Member 34 As Winchman and Five As a Shore H
Isaac Clark of Runswick: when he retired last year he had given 59 years of service to his station—20 years as a crew member, 34 as winchman and five as a shore helper—and his connection with the lifeboat extended back even longer than the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs