LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Open House!
The weather couldn't have been more perfect when the Inshore Lifeboat Centre at Cowes opened its doors to the public on 31 July and 1 August! The Open Days, celebrating the ILC's 25th birthday and the 20th anniversary of the Atlantic...
Category: Articles
Another Motor Life-Boat Flotilla
IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
Category: Articles
Launching Ceremonies of New Motor Life-Boats
Scarborough, Bomber (Spurn Point), Hartlepool, Selsey and Bognor, Sennen Cove, New Brighton.
DURING the summer of this year the launching ceremonies have taken place of six Motor Life-boats.
Category: Inaugurations
People and Places
Mayor of Poole picks the winners Councillor Bill Wratham, the Mayor of Poole, (pictured left with David Brann, RNLI Marketing Manager) dropped by RNLI Headquarters in April to draw the winning tickets of the 89th national lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Shamrock Cruiser II
Ramsgate., Kent.—At 5.15 on the evening of the 15th of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser, flying a distress signal, seemed to be drifting. At 5.22 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Akabahra
FEBRUARY 22ND . - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.5 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire several miles to the east of Dunbar.
She had been seen by the Observer Corps post on the coast. A...
Securing futures
How did we fare in 2011 – a year when sea conditions and the economic climate were equally challenging? Supporters, volunteers and staff gathered to find out the latest facts and...
Category: Articles
Lucy and a Speed Boat
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
March (1)
CARRADALE, ARGYLLSHIRE. At eleven in the morning of the 9th of December, 1943, the two motor fishing boats Betty and Irene, which work together, were at anchor in Carradale Bay, when their crews saw an aeroplane come down on the sea. A...
Category: Services
The Surf Life Saving Story
An everyday scene which even the complacent Australian cannot take for granted is the surf boat crews battling their way through the wildest surf. They make an unforgettable sight on the shoreward run with the five-man crew crowded at the...
Category: Articles