LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishing Trawler Fairway
Trawler broken down A FISHING TRAWLER, Fairway, broken down and drifting towards shore about eight miles south of Lyme Regis was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0032 on Saturday December 2, 1978. The...
The Wreck of the Trawler Skegness. Eleven Lives Lost on the Yorkshire Coast
Eleven Lives Lost on the Yorkshire Coast.
ON the evening of 24th September, 1935, the steam trawler Skegness, of Hull, returning to Hull from the Faroes, with eleven men on board, went ashore under Speeton Cliffs on the...
Category: Services
R.N.L.I. Delegation's Visit to the United States
THE Institution's decision to acquire a 44-foot life-boat of the kind now operated by the United States Coast Guard was a direct consequence of the international life-boat conference held in Edinburgh in June, 1963. At the conference the...
Category: Articles
Support Our Stations
SOS Day, the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, is on Friday 28 January. On last year’s SOS Day, supporters raised over £500,000.
RNLI crew members are well known for going the extra mile when it comes to saving lives at...
Category: Articles
Fig 3: (Below Left) After Well: Porthand Stern Tube Chock Is In Place and Strengthening Padding Over Tunnel Timbers Is Being Built Up
Fig. 3: (Below left) After well: porthand stern tube chock is in place and strengthening padding over tunnel timbers is being built up.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three New Lifeboats: (I to R) Stromness Stronsay and Thurso's Sarah Austin Moored at Thurso After Their Passage from London In 1909
Three new lifeboats: (I to r) Stromness, Stronsay and Thurso's Sarah Austin moored at Thurso after their passage from London in 1909.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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HELICOPTER TAKES OFF CREW OF MOTOR CRUISER Wells, Norfolk. At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 19th September, 1962, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a motor cruiser might need help in the channel near the harbour bar. She was in...
A Schooner (1)
DE C . 1 S T. - MARGATE, KENT. A schooner had been sunk by enemy action four miles away and the life-boat found only the masthead of the vessel and no sign of the crew. It was learned later that the crew had been rescued by another vessel.-...