LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Skipper Ian Innes
SKIPPER Ian Innes, of Helmsdale, Sutherland, whose R.N.L.I. bronze medal award for gallantry in rescuing three fishermen was reported in the June issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, has been presented with a piece of plate by the President of the Board...
Category: Awards
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund are to be congratulated on the admirable zeal and praiseworthy enthusiasm with which the local Life- boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have every where, apparently, been...
Category: Articles
Northerly Gale: Short Steep Seas Break on the Bar at the Harbour Month Photograph By Courtesy of Dale Robinson
Northerly gale: Short, steep seas break on the bar at the harbour month. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Dale Robinson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
64 YEARS WITH THE QUEEN
Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, believed that sea rescue was ‘a cause which extends from the palace to the cottage ... and which addresses itself with equal force to all the best feelings of every class in the state.’ So began our... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1864, the Eight Honourable Sir JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—A new sailingboat of the Norfolk type has been despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION to Winterton, to take the place of one stationed there some years since. The new craft was built by Messrs. BEECHING...
Category: Articles
Special delivery
'HE CHANGED MY LIFE'
I noticed the sad passing of former Newhaven Coxswain/Mechanic Len Patten (pictured) in the latest magazine and I would like it if this message could be passed on to his family and even used to...
Category: Articles
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat (1)
Troon, Ayrshire - At 3.50 p.m. on ist October, 1966, the honorary secretary saw a red flare aboard a motor boat off Lady Isle. Ten minutes later the lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken left her moorings in a rough sea and a fresh west north...
The New Experimental Irb Stationed at Lyme Regis Which Is Referred to on Page 52 Was Built at Atlantic College In South Wales the Boat Has a Five-Compartment 20-Inch
The new experimental IRB stationed at Lyme Regis, which is referred to on page 52, was built at Atlantic College in South Wales. The boat has a five-compartment 20-inch diameter special tube made by Messrs. Dunlop and is fabric strip glued... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs