LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
No ordinary Jo
She made a comedy career from pouring scorn, but when it comes to the sea and those who rescue people from it, Jo Brand is positively gushing
It’s Jo Brand’s turn to jump in. She grabs her...
Category: Articles
40-Foot Experimental Life-Boat
A new experimental boat (see page 545) has been built for the Royal National Life-boat Institution with a glass-reinforced plastic (G.R.P.) hull and deck. The hull, which is a standard commercial one, was designed by T.T. Boat Designs Ltd.,...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1910
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, The'Eight Honourable the EARL OF CREWE, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Handsome
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 1.20 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1949, the Wick coastguard telephoned that a drifter was in difficulties off Sandside.
The life-boat H.C.J. was launched twenty minutes later. A moderate...
Cover Picture
by Frank Austin Penlee's Arun class Mabel Alice at speed during an exercise off the Cornish coast. The Tater-Dhu lighthouse is visible in the background.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barrow May 16 1987
British Nuclear Fuels Limited's (BNF1) marine terminal provided an ideal location for the naming ceremony of Barrow's 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, on a cool sunny day in May.
The new lifeboat James Bibby—dressed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jubilee of the Walton and Frinton Station
THE life-boat station at Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton, Essex, celebrated its jubilee with a dinner on 17th November. Fifty years before, almost to a day, on 18th November, 1884, the inaugural ceremony was held of the first* Walton...
Category: Articles
The Panamanian-Registered Ship Secil Japan (1)
Lifeboats stand-by stranded cargo vessel in severe weatherThe chairman of the RNLI has written a letter of thanks to the coxswains and crews of the Padstow and St Ives lifeboats following a very difficult operation in storm-force winds.At...
Prince Ivanhoe (1)
Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
The Rig Tender Seaforth Conqueror
Aground in a storm THE NOTORIOUS North Scroby Sands, off the Norfolk coast, near Great Yarmouth, claimed another victim on the night of November 18/19, 1986, when the rig tender Seaforth Conqueror ran aground there in a south-south-westerly...