LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
From volunteers to rescuees
Mike and Jan King have fundraised for a quarter of a century – but never thought they would be on the...
Category: Articles
A Record Year
THE year 1936 was for the life-boat service the busiest in its whole history of 113 years. Life-boats were launched 468 times to the help of vessels in distress. That is an average of nine launches a week. Never before have there been so...
Category: Annual Reports
The Austrian Schooner Voador Du Vouga
On the 20th February the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition.
The Austrian schooner Voador du Fo«^a,with a cargo of Indian corn and figs, was driven ashore in Tramore Bay, in a S.W. gale, when...
Acorn Editions
Cyril Jolly's new book! THE LOSS OF THE ENGLISH TRADER RNLI Coxswain Henry Btogg's toughest mission Read how the gallant but temperamental English Trader met her end on Hammond Knoll off the Norfolk Coast in 1941, and how the...
Category: Advertisement
Big sick, little sick
The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’
In 2007, John...
Category: Articles
CATAMARAN CATASTROPHE
A collision in the English Channel becomes a challenging rescue for Dungeness RNLI
4.10am. Wednesday 8 August. Full-time Coxswain Stuart Adams is woken by his pager. There has been a collision in the English Channel and...
Category: Articles
Annual Awards 1980
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1981 has been made to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port for the rescue on December 13 of 29 of the crew of the motor vessel Bonita, listing to 45 degrees in the...
Category: Awards
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FEBRUARY 5TH . - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. A raft with a person on board had been reported off Marsden Pit Heap, but it was found to be a paravane. - Rewards, £7 15s. 6d..
At This Year's International Boat Show In London One of the R.N.L.I.'s New Mclachlan Rescue Craft
At this yeefr's International Boat Show in London one of the R.N.L.I.'s new McLachlan rescue craft with a G.R.P. hull was shown for the first time. Late last year it was announced that for the first time ever the R. N.L.I, had placed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Of the Four Periods In the History of the Lifebout the First Covering the Days of the Pulling and Sailing Boats Is By Far the Longest Launch of the 35Ft Liverpool Lifeboat Samuel Lewis at Skegness In
Of the four periods in the history of the litcbodt. lilt' f i r s t , covering the days of the pulling ami sailing bouts, is by far the longest. Launch of the .Ifft Liverpool lifeboat Samuel Lewis tit Skegness in 1906.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs