LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 579, 588, 593, the following launches on service were made during the months September to November, 1968, inclusive: Aberdovey, Merionethshire...
Category: Services
Small change, big hearts
It’s a Saturday afternoon in Manchester, 1891. Thousands flock to the city’s streets to catch a glimpse of something they have never seen before: lifeboat crew members and their lifesaving craft. As the lifeboats – from the...
Category: Articles
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Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 14th August the coxswain was told that some people were in danger of drowning in Thornwick Bay. about two miles north of Flamborough Head. The wind was only light, from the north, but a very...
New for Old
1998 saw two historic lifeboats return to the water - and both most appropriately in the area where they served as active lifeboats.
At Beinhridge the Coxswain of the current lifeboat Martin Woodward, saw years of tenacity...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service During the General Strike
THE General Strike started at midnight on Monday, 3rd May, and all the regular transport by rail and road ceased at once. On Wednesday, 12th May, shortly after midday, the strike was called off, but it was not until the Saturday that normal...
Category: Articles
Your shout
Thank you for my journal (the Lifeboat, Winter issue). The prize-winning photograph taken by Neville Murphy, of the Dunmore East station crew changing room, brought back memories of my boyhood. When in Sunderland, I accompanied my...
Category: Articles
Never too early …
Christmas is still a couple of months away, but the Lifeboat would like to remind you of the cards and gifts that are available from the RNLI Sales catalogue and website, and from RNLI shops around the UK and RoI.
The...
Category: Articles
The Last of the Sailing Life-Boats
As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th of December, 1948, the term motor lifeboat will no longer be used. " Life-boat" will mean "motor life-boat." The one boat remaining which...
Category: Inaugurations
Shoreline
IN THE PAST tWO JSSUCS of THE LIFEBOAT I have asked members of my staff to give you an insight into their work within the department and I think you will agree that this has caused a fair amount of interest. So in this issue I would like to...
Category: Articles
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - On 2yth August, 1966, the life-boat Henry Comber Brown rescued six people who had been trapped by the tide. An account of this service will appear in the March, 1967, number of THE LIFE-BOAT..