LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Features
spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...
Category: Articles
Competitors In the York Raft Race from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club Paddle Up the Ouse Under Lendal Bridge Winner of the 43-Strong Home-Fashi
Competitors in the York Raft Race, from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club, paddle up the Ouse, under Lendal Bridge. Winner of the 43-strong home-fashioned fleet was Rift Raft; she was made of three aircraft drop tanks and rowed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Herbert Jones, of Hoylake, Cheshire. After serving for ten months as second coxswain of the neighbouring station of Hilbre Island, Coxswain Jones became second coxswain at Hoylake in 1920. He served...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Harold Bradford of Exmouth.
Coxswain Bradford first joined the Exmouth crew in 1925. He was bowman from January 1939 to August 1943, when he became second coxswain.
Category: Articles
Trips on Former Lifeboat
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Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain William Henry Glendewar, of St. Helier, Jersey. He was an officer of the life-boat for twenty-six years, serving as second-coxswain from January 1913 to March 1919, and then as coxswain until January...
Category: Articles
Ilb Launches on Service During the Months December 1971 and January and February 1972
Beaumaris, Anglesey Broughty Ferry, Angus Eastney, Hampshire Hastings, Sussex Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire Largs, Ayrshire Littlehampton, Sussex Llandudno, Caernarvonshire Lymington, Hampshire Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire Mudeford,...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POOLE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at the port of Poole on the coast of Dorsetshire.
As there was no life-boat establishment between Lyme Regis on that coast and the Isle of Wight, and...
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June
Launches 28 Lives rescued 80
JUNE 7TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. At two in the morning a message was received that a motor fishing boat, with five men on board, was adrift in Tralee Bay. A fresh to strong south-west-to-west wind...
Category: Services
A Rescue—Described By the Rescued. The Yacht Gull and the Shoreham Harbour Life-Boat
ON the 8th of August of last year the Shoreham Harbour Life-boat went out in a strong south-westerly gale to a yacht which could be seen three miles out at sea, and pursued her for twelve miles along the coast as she drove before the gale....
Category: Services