LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Below. The Icelandic lifeboat service is funded and operated in a similar way to the RNLI, and has acquired an ex-RNLI lifeboat. The 70ft ex-Clyde class (previously Grace Paterson Ritchie and based at Kirkwall) is pictured leaving the UK to... - View image in PDF

While the Life- boat Elliot Galer was out for her quarterly exercise, during a strong S.E. wind and rough sea on the 25th September, a small boat was sighted with four men in her. She was evi- dently in distress, and the Life-boat bore down...

Stornoway, Hebrides. At 10.45 on the night of the 30th of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Admiralty mooring vessel Moorpout, which intended to call at Stornoway at midnight to land a sick man, needed...

TWO INJURED MEN At 9.30 a.m. on 2ist March, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that there were two injured men on board the Danish vessel Dangulf Maersk. At 9.35 the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched in a light west-north-westerly...

HM The Queen breaks the traditional champagne bottle against the lifeboat as RNLI Chairman Peter Nicholson looks on. Picture: Simon Cuiiiford. - View image in PDF

Wick, Caithness-shire. At 8.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Helman Head, and ten minutes later more flares were seen six miles east of Clythness...

AT this time last year, when tendering our sympathy to the earnest bands of "Life-boat Saturday" workers in the unusually arduous labours they had passed through so generously and cheer- fully (such labours resulting from the...

Lifeboat postcards of other days: (above) Launch of the lifeboat from Margate Pier, 1903 . . .. - View image in PDF