LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two rare postcards sen! in by Mr F. A. Fletcher of East Boldon, Tyne and Wear, co-author of two books on exhibitions, show a lifeboat on display at the Imperial Services Exhibition at Earls Court in 1913. The lifeboat was John and Amy, a... - View image in PDF

UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...

One wet and windy Sunday in May a group of Brownies took part in a beach clean at Kingsdown Beach. The £30 they earned in sponsorship was given to the lifeboats. photograph by courtesy of Basil M. Kidd. - View image in PDF

Then and now... When a new inshore lifeboat station was needed at Flamborough's South Landing the old disused boathouse (right) was demolished to make way for the new (below), built in the same simple and rugged style to suit the... - View image in PDF

IREI.ANDS LINKS with the RNLI are almost as old as the Institution itself and the tradition of lifesaving around its rugged coastline stretches back to the turn of the century.

Guarding the busy shipping lanes bringing...

Amble, Northumberland - At 7.35 a.m. on ist November, 1966, the cobles Provider and Elizabeth Isabel were still at sea with conditions at the harbour bar worsening in the ebb tide. The life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings at 7.45....

On the after- noon of 12th November, two vessels, the schooner Island Maid, of Belfast, and the brigantine Angele, of Brest, while endeavouring to enter Padstow Harbour, in a strong "W.N.W. gale accompanied by a heavy sea, struck on the...

FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER,...