LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Better than fiction
Neil Oliver’s fascination with daring deeds has led him to champion the RNLI – and he’s been in deep water himself a few times, as he tells Rory Stamp
With his rich Scots accent and long black hair, broadcaster, writer and...
Category: Articles
Mer D'Iroise
Jack-up barge AN 'ADVISE LAUNCH' from HM Coastguard was received by the honorary secretary of Falmouth lifeboat station at 2128 on Monday, November 28, 1977, to take off the six-man crew of the jack-up barge Mer d'Iroise, in tow...
Japonica and a 60ft Sailing Vessel
Tyne's 26-hour service in storm force winds Coxswain Kieran Cotter of Baltimore's relief Tyne class lifeboat has received the RNLI's Bronze Medal for Gallantry following a 26-hour service to two separate casualties in winds up to...
Dispatches
Dispatches ’Twas the season … Thousands of RNLI volunteers around the UK and Republic of Ireland were on call over the recent holiday period. It’s too early for 2006 statistics, but from Christmas Eve 2005 to 2 January 2006 volunteer...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (1)
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the honorary secretary noticed that three local fishing cobles appeared to be in difficulties. At 2.45, when the life- boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, there was a...
A Kiss for Her Rescuer
A four-year-old girl, who was rescued in June, 1968, from the water at Bude, Cornwall, by one of the crew of the local IRB, afterwards returned to give a him a kiss of thanks.
Her rescuer was Mr. John Bate, aged 25, and the...
Category: Articles
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Kenneth J. Holland, of the Skegness, Lincolnshire, life-boat Charles Fred Gran- tham. A member of the local life-boat crew since 1947, he was first appointed coxswain in 1965 and then full-time coxswain/mechanic in 1968. Since he...
Category: Articles
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown weighs-in: A seven-month-old golden cocker spaniel named Charlie Brown raised £377 for the Lakes Committee. His owner, Elizabeth Haworth of Windermere asked people to guess his weight in return for a 50p donation.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Glad Tidings
MARCH 19TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND.
NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor lifeboat W.R.A. was launched at 2.20 P.M. as news had come that the engine of the local motor fishing boat Glad Tidings had broken down. A light S.E. breeze was...
Boy's Own
DECEMBER 16TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched at 11.45 A.M. in a heavy S.S.E. gale, with a rough sea, to the help of the local motor fishing coble Boy's Own. She found her six...