LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI News
NEWSPOINT Since the previous issue of THE LIFEBOAT appeared in January the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day has given both young and old the chance to look back at the heroic deeds and sacrifices made to...
Category: Articles
Two New Appointments
MAJOR JAMES DISLEY has been ap- pointed District Organizing Secretary for the north-west of England. Major Disley, who is aged 43, was educated at the Sorbonne and Louvain Univer- sity. He served in the Intelligence Corps and later in the...
Category: Committee
Sheerness Trent Named By Hrh the Duke of Kent KG
Sheerness Trent named by HRH The Duke of Kent KG Even the dark clouds and splatters of rain decided to clear and let the sunshine smile on the new Trent class lifeboat at her naming ceremony on Wednesday 11 September.
HRH... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
Long lost Barometer I have a small item in my possession which may be of interest to someone, somewhere.
Towards the end of the 1950s, I was on holiday in Folkestone, Kent and picked up, half buried in the shingle, what...
Category: Correspondence
As reported in the September Issue of the Life-Boat, T.V. Announcer Guy Thomas, on Behalf of T.W.W. Ltd., Presented a Television Set to the Crew of 70-001 When She Visited Bristol Earlier This Year
As reported in the September issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, T.V. announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.
Ltd., presented a television set to the crew of 70-001 when she visited Bristol earlier this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Rocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...
Category: Services
The Fisherman's Aneroid Barometer
THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has decided to supply Owners or Masters of Fishing Vessels with an Aneroid Baro- meter of a superior and reliable character, at a small cost, which must make this useful instrument a welcome addition to...
Category: Articles
Stuck fast, then footloose
Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...
Category: Articles
Samaritano
On the night of the 24th September, the services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition. At 11 P.M. on that night, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E. with rain, guns were heard at Rams- gate, in the direction of...
Two Small Fishing Boats
DECEMBER 2ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the afternoon two small fishing boats were overtaken by bad weather. A strong westerly wind, increasing to gale force, was blowing, and the sea was rough. They were both...