LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Step By Step
St. Davids coxswain, Malcolm Gray, is shown here using his courage and determination to a slightly different end! The lifeboat station recently received a D class lifeboat for evaluation trials which was delivered by launching at a nearby... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bug
FEBRUARY 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 12.57 A . M . a message was received from the coastguard at Kinnaird Head, that a rocket had been seen a mile east of Rosehearty. A strong S.E. wind was blowing, with a rough...
The Admiralty Minesweeping Trawler Ethel Taylor
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. In the afternoon the coastguard asked that the life-boat should go to a position one and a half miles S.E. of Tyne Piers, and at 4.58 P.M. the motor lifeboat Westmorland was launched. A light N.W...
Brew for the Crew
You really can’t beat a nice cup of tea, and now you can support the RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards simply by putting the kettle on and having a Brew for the Crew!
We’re asking supporters to organise a...
Category: Articles
AGM date set
The RNLI Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards will take place on 17 May at the Barbican in London.
RNLI Governors will be contacted individually and invited to request tickets to both events. All other...
Category: Articles
The ex-Dutch Motor Vessel Sumatra
NOVEMBER 6TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY. At about 11A.M. the coastguard telephoned that the resident naval officer at Holyhead wanted the lifeboat to take out a doctor to the ex-Dutch motor vessel Sumatra, near Puffin Island, as she had an...
Torbay: SEASIDE SPECIAL BRINGS IN THE CROWDS
Hundreds of people defied the rain to support another fantastic Seaside Special at Torbay Lifeboat Station. The Seaside Special is Torbay’s biggest fundraiser of the year and rounds off a week of activities ranging from Walk the Extra Mile...
Category: Articles
First Silver Medal for a Blue Peter Ilb Crew Member Was Awarded to Helmsman David Bliss of St.Agnes After the Award Was Annouced David Bliss and His Crew Wer
First silver medal for a Blue Peter ILB crew member was awarded to Helmsman David Bliss of St Agnes. After the award was annouced, David Bliss and his crew were the guests of the BBC's Blue Peter television programme, (left to right)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Westward
Crabber swamped in Force 12 windsCoxswain/Mechanic Malcolm MacDonald of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for a service in which the Stornoway lifeboat rescued two men from a crabber which was...
The S.S. Peregrine
In the case of the Walton rescue, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was called out at 10.30 P.M. on the 29th December, a telephone message having reported that the s.s. Peregrine was ashore on the Longsand with about 60 passengers on board,...