LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Northerly Storm—Spring Tides: a Log of the Night of January 11 and 12 1978 By Michael Pennell
On the night of January 11 and 12, 1978, storm force winds blowing right down the North Sea coinciding with some of the highest tides of the winter resulted in severe flooding and damage down the East Coast of England and in the Thames...
Category: Articles
Feature: from Rookie to Rescuer
To become a fully competent lifesaver, crew members need to develop a wide range of skills. The RNLI has developed a Competence Based Training system that helps crew members acquire these skills and maintain them through lifeboat station...
Category: Articles
Arun Is a Prototype 52-Foot Fully Self-Righting Life-Boat Built to Satisfy the Need for a Faster Design the Second Prototype Will Have Reduced Free-Board Amidships
Arun is a prototype 52-foot fully self-righting life-boat, built to satisfy the need for a faster design. The second prototype will have reduced free-board amidships.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-first Annual Meeting of this national charity, incorporated by Act of Parliament, and supported by voluntary contributions, to assist destitute persons cast away upon our coasts, was held on the 25th May last at Burdett Hall, Lime...
Category: Meetings
The End of H.M.S. Warspite. A Dangerous Service By Penlee
AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...
Category: Services
Swimmers from Life-Boats
ONCE many life-boatmen considered it an unlucky gift to swim too well but since those days things have changed. For well over a year now the R.N.L.I, has been evaluating the use of swimmers from life-boats, as well as the kind of special...
Category: Articles
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Training saves lives The benefits of the RNLI's training programme were demonstrated in August last year when crew members of Fenit lifeboat saved the life of a man using their newly gained resuscitation and cardiac massage skills. The...
A Manx Tale
The Isle of Man and will always be synonymous with the RNLI, for it was here in Douglas Bay during the early part of the last century that Sir William Hillary, the founder of the RNLI, witnessed at first hand, the plight of seafaring...
Category: Articles
Festive Figures:
Festive figures: Christmas may be a mere memory by now, but for Mr Sid Cook and his wife Peggy, of Lowestoft, production of this year's selection of seasonal novelties, to sell for charity, is already in full swing. In 1986 the Cooks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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INJURED YOUTH PICKED UP BY BOARDING BOAT Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen over the cliffs two miles south of...