LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
After Her Naming and a Service of Dedication on Sunday July 19
After her naming and a service of dedication on Sunday July 19, New Brighton's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat is towed across the beach ready for launching. She is one of the Atlantics generously provided by Fred Olsen Lines... - View image in PDF
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Sunday service
What do you do when your boat starts to sink – so fast you don’t even have time to make a distress call? You hope there’s a lifeboat nearby …
It was a typical Sunday morning for the crew of...
Category: Articles
SPECIAL DELIVERY
HAPPY MEMORIES
RESCUE IN WARTIME
A scenic seascape in our last issue got one reader thinking of childhood holidays – and old RNLI friends
The lovely photograph of Ballycotton Harbour on page 23 of the summer...
Category: Articles
Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman
Bronze Medal Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman of Aldeburgh for the service to the yacht Red House Lugger on 29 August 1996 - see ThtLfftbott Winter 1996/ 7 for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
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Checking Out the Fowey Lifeboat
Anna Chatt-Collins and Pat Stewart, who both work in the Physiotherapy department at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, walked ten miles along the Dorset coast westwards from Lulworth Cove and collected £300 for the Fowey... - View image in PDF
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Acorn Editions
Cyril Jolly's new book! THE LOSS OF THE ENGLISH TRADER RNLI Coxswain Henry Btogg's toughest mission Read how the gallant but temperamental English Trader met her end on Hammond Knoll off the Norfolk Coast in 1941, and how the...
Category: Advertisement
The Institution and the War
WE have the pleasure of giving a list, brought up to date, of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of Permanent Crews, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His...
Category: Articles
Sunbeam
— Six men, -whilst working on the Pit Heap, Newburgh Colliery, saw the coble Sun- beam, of Newbiggin, capsize in Druridge Bay. A messenger was sent for the Life-boat, and the remaining five, knowing that there was a small boat lying on the...
Four Generations at Worthing
Reading from left to right: William Blann (the Coxswain), his grandson, his son, Henry Blann (Bowman), and George Newman (Second Coxswain). In front is Thomas Blann, who was Second Coxswain in the Institution's first Life-boat stationed... - View image in PDF
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A Rescue Party Waits to Take An Injured Man from Aboard the Teignmouth Lifeboat to Hospital.
A rescue party waits to take an injured man from aboard the Teignmouth lifeboat to hospital. The man had fallen down cliffs on 18 March at Ansley's Cove in Torquay and suffered a broken ankle. He was carried a further 30ft to the base of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs