LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Penlee
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
BIRTHDAY HONOURS Among the awards announced in the 1985 Birthday Honours list were: QBE: E. C. B. Corlett, chairman and managing director of Burness, Corlett and Partners, a member of the RNLI's technical consultative committee since...
Category: Articles
During the London Boat Show Des Sleightholme Editor of Yachting Monthly
During the London Boat Show Des Sleightholme, editor of Yachting Monthly, presented a painting to Coxswain Mike Scales (r) of St Peter Port lifeboat, Guernsey. The painting, which is by Laurence Baglev, standing on the left, is of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 52Ft Barnett Class Ex-Lifeboat Ramsey Dyce Alongside the Broken-Down Diving Boat.
The 52ft Barnett class ex-lifeboat Ramsey Dyce alongside the broken-down diving boat. - View image in PDF
Photo Angus Beaton. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
Stirling Whorlow QBE Stirling Whorlow QBE, the secretary of the Institution for eight years from 1961 to 1969 died at his home in Spain on 2 October 1988.
One of his colleagues from the RNLI at the time writes: 'It is...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1906, the United States Life-Saving Establishment comprised 278 stations, an increase of one station as compared with the total of the preceding year. All the stations were comprised in thirteen...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boat for Fraserburgh
A VERY interesting ceremony took place at Fraserburgh on the 4th August, when the new Motor Life-boat, the Lady Rothes, presented to the Institution by Mr. T. Dyer Edwardes, was named and launched in the presence of some thousands of...
Category: Inaugurations
Airdrie, of Stranraer
On the 25th Sept., the schooner Airdrie, of Stranraer, was stranded on the Baldoyle Sands, in Dublin Bay, during a gale of wind. The same life-boat went off through a heavy and dangerous sea and rescued the crew of 4 men..
Putting Out to the Rescue
The Anstruther motor life-boat going to the help of fishing boats on 21st February, 1935. - View image in PDF
(See page 457 ). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs