LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Shore-Boats (3)
BURRA ISLE, SHETLANDS. While out haddock fishing in a small open boat from Skeld three men were thrown into the sea when their boat was capsized by a squall. The accident happened at about 7.30 A.M. on the 18th March, 1939, when the boat was...
Category: Services
Locative
Tyne and helicopter work together to rescue four in heavy swell and gale The skill and determination of Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell, of Arranmore's Tyne class lifeboat William Luckin , during a difficult eighthour service...
A Yacht
Broken rudder A YACHT in trouble to the south of the Calf Islands, off the southern Irish coast, was firing red flares. They were sighted and reported to the honorary secretary of Baltimore lifeboat station at 1320 on the afternoon of Friday...
As a Forerunner to 'Operation Lifeboat' Devon Scouts Visited Plymouth Lifeboat Station on December 8 1973 When They Were Taken Out In Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse
As a forerunner to 'Operation Lifeboat', Devon Scouts visited Plymouth lifeboat station on December 8, 1973, when they were taken out in Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse for practical demonstrations: on steering. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nick of time
A boat with its own fascinating RNLI history set out on a perfect day last Summer. Little did her crew know it was to be her last voyage …
‘We set off in ideal conditions – you couldn’t have...
Category: Articles
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
A Steamer (22)
JULY 15TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A steamer was reported to have been bombed and sunk by enemy aeroplanes, but the lifeboat found nothing except a patch of oil.
Another vessel picked up an injured man in a...
"Literature of the Life-Boat."
IN October of last year a supplement to The Life-boat was published, written by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution. The supplement, under the title of " Liter- ature of the Life-boat," gave an...
Category: Articles
The Bird of Dawning
The Bird of Dawning
by John Masefield
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn
The Bird of Dawning is a classic from 1933, recently republished by the National Maritime Museum with an introduction...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards were held once again on London's South Bank on Tuesday 10 May 1994. Once again both meetings attracted a large and interested assembly to hear of the Institution's work...
Category: Meetings