LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R.A.F. Speed Boat
JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.30 P.M. the officer in command of the R.A.F. station asked for the life-boat to go to the help of an R.A.F. speed-boat, with a crew of three, which was in distress off Ramsey, and also to put men on...
(Below) the Fishing Vessel Boy Andrew Sinks As She Is Towed
(Below) The fishing vessel Boy Andrew sinks as she is towed clear by a powerful trawler and Soldian closes in. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Presentation to the Montrose Life-Boatmen (From the Dundee Advertiser, 21st April, 1884)
FOR years past the Montrose life-boat crews, by their readiness at all times to proceed to sea to the rescue of the wrecked, and the success which has at all times attended their labours, have earned for Montrose the reputation of being, so...
Category: Articles
New Food for Life-Boats
All life-boats carry chocolate, biscuits and rum, as emergency rations. The life-boats with cabins, which may have long distances to travel, also carry corned-beef.
To their rations have now been added coeoa-milk and oxtail...
Category: Articles
Left Crew Members
Left Crew members and branch officials smile tor the camera in the new meeting room.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.40 on the night of the 26th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Toni had reported seeing a distress signal made by the crew of a boat near the wreck of the...
Latvian Award to Portaskaig
ON the night of 26th October, 1936, the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, was caught in a sudden very severe storm near Jura Sound on the west coast of Scotland. The weather was very thick, with rain showers, and the sea was very...
Category: Awards
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
Called away from Ceremony
Just after the opening ceremony for Exmouth RNLI’s new boathouse, the crews’ pagers went off and guests saw both lifeboats launched on a real rescue.
A catamaran sailor had been injured and was picked up by a passing...
Category: Articles
The Presentation of a Cheque for £94970 Was the Result of a Sponsored Run from Raf Sciimpton In Lincolnshire to Brighton Made By Personnel from the Raf Base
The presentation of a cheque for £949.70 was the result of a sponsored run from RAF Sciimpton in Lincolnshire to Brighton, made by personnel from the RAF Base. The journey, made over two days last June, was run in relays of three.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs