LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glad Tidings
MARCH 19TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND.
NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor lifeboat W.R.A. was launched at 2.20 P.M. as news had come that the engine of the local motor fishing boat Glad Tidings had broken down. A light S.E. breeze was...
The "Admiral Briggs" Memorial Life-Boat Stationed at Hilbre Island, Cheshire
"AND there is no more sea." Heart of my heart 1 All is alike to thee Where thou art.
But storms down here below Are just the same, And God will let thee know That the old name Is working bravely still— Doing its...
Category: Poetry
Fishing Cobles and A Parachute
FEBRUARY 7TH. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The Filey motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 1.10 in the afternoon to stand by the local fishing cobles as a strong south-west wind was blowing and the sea was rough. When the...
Feeding the Gulls
WHEN the motor mechanic of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat started up the engines one morning in December, to test them, several dozen small grey mullet were blown out of the tunnels in which the propellers are housed. The stunned...
Category: Articles
A Converted Life-Boat
A YACHTSMAN who bought and con- verted one of the Institution's 35-feet 6-inch life-boats writes of her to the Yachting Monthly.
"Sailing performance is far beyond my expectations. With plate down she never...
Category: Articles
Anabisi
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.20 p.m. on 3rd September, 1965, the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a north-westerly wind of gale force and a rough sea to go to the assistance of a motor vessel whose engine had broken down five miles...
A Motor Boat
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire-At 6.40 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down and was drifting out to sea on the ebb tide. At 6.47 the IRB launched in a gentle easterly...
A Fishing Vessel
European Co-operation The Ijmuiden lifeboat Christ/en was visiting Lowestoft on 17 October when the Coastguard reported a fishing vessel broken down a few hundred yards off the harbour mouth.
As Christian's crew were...
The Big Plunge:
The Big Plunge: A group of North Devon servicemen took the plunge for charity. Eighteen divers from RAF Chivenor and Locking Sub Aqua Clubs leapt from Barnstaple bridge to raise £600. It took three hours for the men to float four miles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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In Weymouth, Dorset, on 30 August 2005 RNLI lifeguards saved an elderly male who had collapsed face down in the water.
Discovering the man wasn't breathing and had no pulse, they inserted an airway, started...