LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
WINDOWS INTO THE PAST
A stunning collection of glass plate negatives brings the RNLI’s lifesaving history into a new light
The RNLI’s Heritage Team are always on the look-out for artefacts and materials that document the lifesaving work of the...
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J.R.N.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.2 on the afternoon of the 18th of January, 1958, the Foreland coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile south-south- east of Ventnor. The life-boat Eliza- beth...
A Caterpillar Tractor for Launching Life-Boats. By Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
THE great difficulty in the way of prompt Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses.
It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they have frequently to...
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On October 27, 1959, Fraserburgh lifeboat,
On October 27, 1959, Fraserburgh lifeboat, The Duchess of Kent, heads out into a gale and mountainous seas. In escorting one fishing vessel back to harbour and in plucking the crew of another to safety after their yawl had been rolled onto... - View image in PDF
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Goleta and Edith May
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the afternoon of the 27th October the steamer Goleta, of London, sheltering in Ramsey bay while bound from North Africa to Workington, signalled that a doctor was needed immediately. A strong N.N.W. gale was blowing,...
Appealing for faster Cowes
The RNLI took on the running of Cowes Lifeboat Station on the Isle of Wight in 2008. Based in a small, temporary facility within Shepards Wharf Marina, Cowes lifeboat launched 41 times last year and rescued 49 people.
Now,...
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SOS on the High Seas
SOME 300 representatives from government and industry in 21 countries attended a New York conference in October, 1970, to discuss ways of providing 100% search and rescue coverage for vessels needing help on the high...
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North Berwick Ilb Blue Peter III Crew Meet Bbc 'Blue Peter' Team When They Received Their 'Blue Peter' Gold Badges During the Programme on December 20 1973
North Berwick ILB Blue Peter III crew meet BBC 'Blue Peter' team when they received their 'Blue Peter' gold badges during the programme on December 20, 1973. (Left to right): Peter Purves, Benjamin Pearson, James Pearson,... - View image in PDF
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An Epilogue to the Loss of Solomon Browne from Dr D W L Leslie Chairman Penlee Station Branch
MOUSEHOLE VILLAGE and harbour just west of Penzance is famous for its display of Christmas lights—an enterprise supported by the whole village and particularly by the Penlee lifeboat crew. Last year Charles Greenhaugh, as chairman of the...
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May
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7.30 p.m.
on 29th April, 1966, a man informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was in trouble off the Isle of Jura.
The help of the Islay life-boat had been...