LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Leading the way
Lifesavers from around the world visited RNLI College in August for 2 weeks of intensive tuition on how to run an effective coastal rescue service.
Representatives from Bangladesh, Cameroon, India, Mauritius, Philippines,...
Category: Articles
Main - Just Some of the Colourful Characters
Main - just some of the colourful characters who took part in Hythe's great raft race in August 2000.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bound In Boards Cut from the Oak Knees Used for the Stems of Lifeboats
. . Bound in boards cut from the oak knees used for the stems of lifeboats,. - View image in PDF
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The Model of the 42' Watson Mabel E Holland Dungeness (Left)
The Model Of The 42' Watson Mabel E Holland Dungeness (Left). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Committee of Management
FOUR new members have been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. They are Captain R. E.
Cowell, C.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.; Mr. P.
Denham Christie; Field-Marshal Sir Francis Festing, G.C.B....
Category: Committee
Chaften Winkle, of Aalborg
The life-boat and the steamer also went out on the evening of the 14th January, in reply to signals and rockets fired from the Gull light-ship, during very threatening weather.
On speaking the light-vessel, the men were...
Ministry of Transport Award
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the Ministry's shield for the best rescue service of the year to the Collieston (Aberdeen) Coast Life-saving Company for the rescue by breeches buoy of the...
Category: Awards
List of Launches
Aberdeen Arun: Nov 2, Nov 28. Jan 24.JanmJan31.Feh4 and Feb 29 D class: Jan 7, Jan 21. Jan 31 and Feb 4 Aberystwyth Atlantic 75: Jan 22 Achill Island Trent: Nov 9, Jan 26 and Feb 6 ilh Severn: Nov 20 Aldehurgh D class: Dec 5 Alderney Arun:...
Category: Services
Isabella Granger, of Whitby
"While she was rendering this service, the Mark Lane Life-boat had gone off to a vessel which had sunk in the Roads, but no traces could be found of the crew of that ill-fated ship. The boat was returning when she was hailed by the...
The Motor Fishing Coble Three Brothers
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 5.55 in the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948. a Skinningrove fisherman telephoned that a fishing coble had anchored off Skinningrove with her engine broken down and the motor life-boat Bobert Patton — The Always...