LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eau de Vie
Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore galeThe coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives of eight people from a dismasted yacht...
"The Padstow Centenary": An Addition. The Silver Medallists of the Station
An article on the Padstow Station, which last year celebrated its Centenary, appeared in the Life-boat for last November, and particulars were given of the Medals which had been won by Padstow Life-boatmen. Several Medals have to be added to...
Category: Medals
Fund Raising at Sporting Events By Peter Holness
A WAY of raising funds is to hold collections at sporting events, such as professional football matches, race meetings and dog track meetings, all of which attract large gates. Four London football clubs were helpful in 1970 and each allowed...
Category: Articles
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
Category: Articles
From the Canadian Red Cross
The Institution has received a cheque for £55.18.6. from the Canadian ReU Cross Society, which has decided to make a monthly subscription of this amount "in recognition of the great war work done by the Institution from which we...
Category: Articles
Self-Righting and Non-Self-Righting Life-Boats. Losses Through Capsizing Since 1850
THE discussion in the Press and elsewhere which followed the Rye disaster showed that the public was very far from understanding the relative merits of self-righting Life-boats and of those which do not self-right, or the reasons which...
Category: Articles
Double Toil and Trouble
Even experienced sailors can misjudge their situation. Carol Waterkeyn reports on a testing service to two yachts caught out close to harbour
Mr and Mrs Burris checked the forecast on 25 June 2007 as they prepared to sail...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 20 May 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 446 times (an average of 3 launches a day) 146 lives were saved (an average of one a day) Some 11 % of all...
Category: Articles
Aldeburgh- East Division
Aldeburgh's lifeboats are housed separately on the beach along the parallell Crag Path.
The 'A-frame' building to the right of picture below is the new 'Penza' boathouse which houses the Mersey class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (25)
OCTOBER 4TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. A steamer had gone aground north of Rudha Hunish, Skye, but she got off without help and went on her way.- Rewards, £7 9s. 3d..