LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'The scariest situation I've ever been in'
As the evening approached at Aberavon Beach on the south Wales coast, the RNLI lifeguard team were packing up their kit – but their work was not over for the day …
Sun and sand had attracted...
Category: Articles
Julian Paul (1)
Ten hour service to disabled fishing vessel in gale force winds The coxswains of both the Penlee and Sennen Cove lifeboats, Neil Brockman and Terry George, have been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal following a joint service to a...
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THE Imperial Japanese Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck (Dainippon Teikoku Suinam Kiusai Kwai) was established in 1879, but was not incorporated by Imperial Charter until 1899. At the present time the Society has 17 stations on the...
Category: Articles
Haul-Off Warps
THE term "Haul-off warp" is used to describe the rope which is made fast to an anchor laid out to sea opposite the launching place of the Life-boat, and with- out the he'p of this appliance there are many stations where the aid...
Category: Articles
Membership News
Re-member 1989 The 'Re-member 1989' scheme to fund a new Mersey class lifeboat has got off to a slightly disappointing start, although it is still early days for the appeal.
Although the number of new members coming...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
90 years ago I wonder whether you would be interested in this photograph, taken on Lifeboat Day in Croydon in 1909, 90 years ago? My brother, aged 5 (left), and I, aged 4, carried the tin lifeboat collection boxes during a street parade on...
Category: Correspondence
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed Honor- ary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on Vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MRS....
Category: Awards
Life-Boat Services In 1904
Lives saved.
Newbiggin, North Sunder- land, Port Isaac, Scarboro', Staithes, Stonehaven, Whitby —rendered assistance.
Frobfsher, steam trawler, of Yar- mouth, assisted to save vessel and 9 George...
Category: Services
Kingston Surbiton and Molesey Branches
In spite of rather grim weather for part of the time, the sun eventually shone on the Kingston, Surbiton and Molesey branches' annual inter-club regatta weekend which was a great success. Nearly 150 boats from 14 yacht clubs, including... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Runa
Port Erin, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1951, the Director of the Marine Bio- logical Station sent a message to the Port Erin life-boat authorities. Two life-boatmen had reported that the Station's...