LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wrestling With the Raging Sea
The RNLI provides its volunteers with the best lifeboats, equipment and training for the job, and so it must. But sometimes, nothing is a match for the sheer ferocity of NatureWhen a lifeboat crew launch to the rescue, their own safety is...
Category: Articles
A Box of Arbroath Smokeys for Hrh the Duke of Kent
A box of Arbroath smokeys for HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, from Coxswain Douglas Matthewson. It is at Arbroath that the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Brigadier-General NOEL M. LAKE, C.B., in recognition of his distinguished services as a member of the Committee of Manage- ment from 1916 to 1926, a Vellum recording his election as an Honorary Life-Governor of the...
Category: Awards
1974: Bronze Medallists Helmsman Donald Jones of Rhyl and Helmsman Benjamin Pearson of North Berwick 'Kit Up' Ready to Meet Photographers and Press
1974: bronze medallists Helmsman Donald Jones of Rhyl and Helmsman Benjamin Pearson of North Berwick 'kit up' ready to meet photographers and press.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Living with history
The RNLI’s many boathouses are often adapted through their lifetimes to meet changing operational needs but sometimes they must be vacated entirely – and then enter a whole new existence
If walls could speak, those of old...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services September October and November 1982
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ftArun: Octobers Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: September 19 and 26 Aith, Shetland 52ft Burnett: November 4 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in Rather: September 20 (twice) and October 16 Angle, Dyfed 46ft 9in Watson:...
Category: Services
Institution's Treasurer With Life-Boatmen
The Duke of Northumberland with Robert and James Brownlee, only surviving members of the Whitby crew of 1914. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duchess of Kent at Plymouth and Padstow
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, paid a visit to the West Country in May, 1952, and named the new life-boats at the Port of Plymouth and at Padstow.
The Port of Plymouth had a life- boat station as...
Category: Inaugurations
Douglas Lifeboat the 46' 9" Watson R a Colby Cubbin No 1 Which Kept Watch Over Cargo Vessel Ivy Taking Water and Listing on January 3 and 4 Is Seen Here Launching T
Douglas lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1, which kept watch over cargo vessel Ivy, taking water and listing, on January 3 and 4, is seen here launching to the aid of the pleasure boat White Rose at 1945 on Monday,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs