LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 16 November 1989, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,695 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) More than 1,257 lives were saved (an average of 4 people...
Category: Articles
Padstow's New Motor Life-Boat
Inaugural Ceremony by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G.
THE new Padstow Motor Life-boat was named on 21st July by H.E.H. the Duke of Gloucester, K.G., the name given to her being Princess Mary.
The new...
Category: Inaugurations
Asie
BARMOUTH, NOETH WALES.—At noon on the 27th November The Jones Oibb Life-boat was launched, Captain LA PEIMAUDAYE, E.N., District Inspector of Lifeboats, who was at the station on a visit of inspection, going out in her, to the assistance of...
Fendyke
Knockdown A COASTER, Fendyke, in trouble off Carnoustie a few miles north of the entrance to the River Tay was reported to the honorary secretary (operations)of Broughty Ferry lifeboat station, who is also the harbour master, by HM...
Csma Chairman John Harrington
CSMA Chairman John Harrington (right) presents cheque for over £66.000 to David Ttdman. RNLI transport manager. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Endeavour, Faith Star, Progress, Venus, Lead Us, Provider A, etc
Whitby, Yorkshire. — At eleven in the morning of the 7th of March, 1952fishermen reported that conditions on the outer harbour bar were very dangerous for returning fishing boats, and at 11.15 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat...
Category: Services
In Portsmouth Dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the Second Oakley 48-Foot 6-Inch Life-Boat Was Capsized Twice for the Benefit of the Press and a Large Unofficial Gathering of Naval and Civilian Dockyard Personnel
In Portsmouth dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the second Oakley 48-foot 6-inch lifeboat was capsized twice for the benefit of the Press and a large unofficial gathering of naval and civilian dockyard personnel. Here she is shown righting and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Florence Cook
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At about four o'clock in the morning of the 19th of December, 1949, the Bangor coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was in distress at Ballymacormack Point. At 4.25 the life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched in...
Lifeboat People
Lifeboat People IN THE NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST the British Empire Medal was awarded to Alfred William Lacey, who has been the motor mechanic of Margate lifeboat since 1947; from 1940 to 1947 he served as assistant...
Category: Articles