LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stay safe this Summer
RNLI lifeguards will be on patrol on all the usual beaches in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Jersey this Summer. We're in negotiations to take on some more beaches too – watch this space!
With the Olympics and...
Category: Articles
May Lily (1)
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 7.16 on the morning of the 17th ofApril, 1951, a fisherman telephoned the Filey life-boat authorities that he had picked up a message on his wireless set: the fishing boat May Lily, of Scar-...
Mark Bates
Mark Bates, coxswain of Kilmore Quay lifeboat from 1950 to 1966, who was awarded the silver medal of the RNLI in 1958 for the rescue of the crewof 10 of a French trawler in December, 1957..
Category: Obituaries
MUD RESCUE MORECAMBE 18 MAY
A 14-year-old girl was rescued by Morecambe lifeboat crew after being trapped up to her waist in mud for 90 minutes. Morecambe’s inshore rescue hovercraft crew, accompanied by a Coastguard rescue helicopter, headed to the scene, locating the...
Category: Articles
Chay Blyth Signed Copies of the Lifeboat Souvenir Programme While Visiting the Exhibition
Chay Blyth signed copies of THE LIFEBOAT souvenir programme while visiting the exhibition.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Washed away
Flood rescue has unique risks and challenges but, with specialist skills and determination, achievement against the odds is possible as our volunteers found in Umberleigh and St Asaph...
Category: Articles
H. F. Bolt
The Life-boat Elinor Soget was launched at 3 A.M., on the 7th November, while a moderate to strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, and saved the crew of four men from the Ketch H. F. Bolt, of Appledore, coal-laden,...
Pictured Here Is the First Rescue Boat With a Fibre-Glass Hull to Be Tested Under Operational Conditions
Pictured here is the first rescue boat with a fibre-glass hull to be tested under operational conditions by the R.N.L.I. It is a 17-foot dory built by Dell Quay Productions Ltd., at Itchenor, Sussex. (See pages 464 and 482.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
May Lily
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 31st of March, 1948, the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was launched at 5.35, to stand by the local motor fishing boat May Lily, during a south-easterly gale with a very heavy...
What and Where
What and Where The lifeboat fleet of the RNL9 If s back again by popular demand! The following is a print-out from LINCS, the RNLI's Lifeboat integrated Computer System, and is correct as of October 1999.
Lifeboats are...
Category: Articles