LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Small change, big hearts
It’s a Saturday afternoon in Manchester, 1891. Thousands flock to the city’s streets to catch a glimpse of something they have never seen before: lifeboat crew members and their lifesaving craft. As the lifeboats – from the...
Category: Articles
Ard Carna
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
Seasoned Lifesavers
Every summer, RNLI lifeguards patrol more than 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands, keeping thousands of beachgoers safe. But how can we keep people safe as winter approaches?
A scheme being trialled on some of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Body Han, Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the deration and...
Category: Articles
A Lovely Life-Size Donkey Hand Made By Robbie Macdonald
A lovely life-size donkey, hand made by Robbie MacDonald who works at the Wick Carpet Store, was raffled to raise funds for Wick lifeboat station. The donkey was put on display in the store to attract interest in the raffle. Eight-year-old... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies
The new Troon life-boat, James and Barbara Aitken, was named by Her Grace Mary, Duchess of Montrose, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president of the Isle of Arran branch, on the 9th of July, 1955. The cost of this life-boat...
Category: Inaugurations
The Fund Raisers
Fair weather or foul During Hoylake lifeboat station's open day last August it was a case of 'What shall we look at first?' And with so much to see and do it must have been a hard choice for many of the 10,000 people who went...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE Institution is at present engaged on a major programme of construction and modernization, and at the time of going to press there are no fewer than 17 new life-boats in various stages of construc- tion. The total cost of this boat...
Category: Articles
New Hope, of Maldon
On the even- ing of the 29th October, a telephone message was received from the pierhead that flares could be seen west of the pier. A whole W. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea and rain. The Motor Life-boat Greater London put out at...
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Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...