LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Build for life
Today, RNLI lifeboats are designed and built in-house. Soon, we will be fitting them out and doing their maintenance too, as project leader David Price explains ...
The pace of change in our...
Category: Articles
A Canoe
Falling tide, rising tide ONLY AN HOUR OR TWO after West Kirby lifeboat crew had been receiving instruction on mouth to mouth resuscitation from their divisional inspector, Cdr George Cooper, on Thursday March 6, and while they were still...
Saved By a Motor Lifeboat
While sifting through film archives at RNLI headquarters in Poole, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, Jon Jones discovered an unknown and very rusty film canister...
The mysterious canister was handed to Sue Denny,...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 5.53 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1951, a resident at Waterwynch report- ed to the coastguard that a rowing boat seemed to be in difficulties in Water- wynch Bay. A later message made it two rowing boats. At...
THE LANGDON LEGACY
It's 27 March 1941. Two days after being attacked by a squadron of Luftwaffe bombers, the SS Somali, a large convoy ship, burns a mile off the Northumberland coast. Intent on saving her cargo, crew from a salvage tug board to assess the...
Category: Articles
In This Issue
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 8 The latest rescues including three Bronze Medal awards for gallantry Lifeboats to the Flood Rescue 14 Lifeboats lend a hand inland during the terrible floods of...
Category: Contents
An Unidentified Watson Ex-Lifeboat at Lochgilphead - the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society Would Like to Identify Her and Any Other Ex-Lifeboats
An unidentified Watson ex-lifeboat at Lochgilphead - the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society would like to identify her, and any other ex-lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Essay Competition
The Mayor of Gosport presenting the Challenge Shield for the South-West of England to Miss Barbara Bull, of Lees Girls' School, Gosport, who won the prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ilfracombe Life-Boat to Be Named "Lloyd's"
A new 37-foot Oakley life-boat now under construction, which is to be stationed at Ilfracombe, North Devon, will bear the name "Lloyd's" in recognition of the financial support given every year by members of Lloyd's to the...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Workington, Cumberland.—At 7.-10 on the evening of the 10th of December, 1956, a message was received from the Walney coastguard that a smallboat, with four Silloth firemen on board, had put out at five o'clock from Grune Point to search...