LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
INLAND LIFE-BOAT CREW
Stockport's unique life-boat crew—the only inland crew recognised by the R.N.L.I.—recently received a silver and bronze statuette of a life-boatman in appreciation of the crew's 33 years' work in collecting for the...
Category: Awards
An Important National Question
WE have frequently had occasion to allude to the feet—to the astounding fact—that an annual average of more than 700 human beings suffer death by drowning, from shipwreck or collision, on the shores and in the waters of the United Kingdom...
Category: Articles
Port Isaac August 8 1987:
PORT ISAAC, August 8, 1987: two anglers, cut off by the tide when they clambered to remote rocks north of Hole Beach are picked up by Port Isaac's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, earlier alerted by Hartland Coastguards. The alarm was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One of Our Younger Shoreline Members: Zoe Ballantyne of Shorne Kent Zoe Who Obviously Enters Into the Spirit of the Service With a Will Is Eighteen Months Old Have We
One of our younger Shoreline members: Zoe Ballantyne of Shorne, Kent. Zoe, who obviously enters into the spirit of the service with a will, is eighteen months old. Have we a more junior member ?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Early start
27 October 2012: The volunteer crew at Castletownbere were denied a Saturday morning lie-in, launching at 5am to a 33m Spanish fishing trawler, which had grounded on the western point of Bere Island, Co Cork. All...
Category: Articles
Quire Demy Ltd
•X- Support the RNLI in Maritime Year Jammer Super Thermal Wear the sale of which will benefit the RNLI Jammer Super Jacket Specifically designed for water sportsmen. Three materials 'fused'. So, you're warm, weatherproof and...
Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 2nd February, signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the direction of the Barber Sand. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend promptly proceeded to the Sand and found the smack Peace, of Lowestoft...
Category: Services
Le Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrive Along With £950 Paul Graham
Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive, along with £950. Paul Graham, pictured (r) with his wife Susan, organised a luncheon at his pub, the James King at Pease Pottage in Sussex to celebrate the 1984 vintage and to support the RNLI. Among... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Disasters of Sixty and Fifty Years Ago. The Recollections of Eye-Witnesses
SIXTY years ago last September, and fifty years ago this December, life- boats were capsized and lives were lost.
Sixty years ago it was the life-boat at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, which capsized.
Her second...
Category: Articles
The Ribble Estuary Carries Heavy Traffic Here the Local Life-Boat the Sarah Townsend Porritt
The Ribble estuary carries heavy traffic. Here the local life-boat, the Sarah Townsend Porritt, which was built in 1951, is shown against a familiar background.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs