LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1. the Audience
The audience is spell bound during the review of the year film. (Send in your snippets of 2006 for consideration for next year's review to Film and Image Manager Eleanor Driscoll at RNLI Headquarters). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Old Firm
IN 1789 William Wouldhave of South Shields, house-painter and teacher of singing, made his model of a life-boat which would self-right. In the same year Henry Greathead of South Shields built the first life-boat, the...
Category: Articles
The Fisher Boy, of Wick
JANUARY 24TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.5 in the afternoon a fisherman telephoned from Melvick that a fishing boat was in distress about seven miles east of Port Skerra, and the motor life-boat...
(Above) the Righting Displays
(Above) The righting displays are always popular - Three burly crew members are enough to persuade a D class to come the right way up.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Eastbourne Museum
The Eastbourne Museum Opened In The Old "William Terriss Memorial Lif E-Boathouse " In 1937 and Temporarily Closed Shortly After War Broke Out In September 1939. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Record of 1940.
During 1940 the Institution's life-boats were launched r,o8t times. That is 396 more launches than ever before in one year.
They rescued 2.056 lives. That is 858 more lives rescued than ever before in one year.
Category: Articles
The Central Appeals Committee
A second attempt a fortnight later began with a favourable light wind and ended in thick fog when the crew could barely see the length of the boat. 'All kinds of ghostly shapes and spectral ships, all manner of imaginary noises and...
Category: Committee
Rush to the Rafts!
What more can be said about the annual Portrush Raft Race, except that it keeps getting better and better? Held in aid of the RNLI the total for the 1990 extravaganza has passed the £26,000 mark.
Sponsored by Guinness,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LIVES RISKED IN THE RIP
Constantly reading the conditions in sea and sky, lifeguards can prevent many incidents before they even begin. But when a rip current pulled a bodyboarder out to sea, one Devon team proved they were ready to give their...
Category: Articles