LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loch Lorgan (1)
TRAWLER AGROUND At 2 p.m. on I3th December, 1963, the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at the request of the Colne Fishing Company to lay out an anchor in an attempt to refloat the trawler Loch Lorgan of Lowestoft which was ashore at...
Gesine
The Life- boat James Stevens No. 13 performed an excellent service on the 14th April.
At 5.30 in the morning a message was received that a vessel was on the rocks at Westhaven, Carnoustie. With all haste the Life-boat...
Far Left: Ross Revenge Safe
Far left: Ross Revenge safe after her rescue by Vulture and the Lough Swilly crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above Far Right: a 'Casualty'
Above far right: A 'casualty' is carefully stretchered off during a previous exercise.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ever Ready — Kent Ferry Exercise
The unexpected can often make an exercise more real than anyone intended. This is how Ramsgate lifeboatmen passed an extra test of skill with flying colours. Photographs are by courtesy of Jim Byrne, the story is told by Georgette...
Category: Articles
Wreck of H.M.S. "Orpheus" on Manukau Bar, Near Auckland, New Zealand
WRECK OF H.M.S. " OBPHEUS " ON MANUKAU BAR, NEAR AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND.
From The Illustrated London News.
Category: Drawings
Stay safe this Summer
RNLI lifeguards will be on patrol on all the usual beaches in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Jersey this Summer. We're in negotiations to take on some more beaches too – watch this space!
With the Olympics and...
Category: Articles
Wrecks and Derelicts
(From The. Times, 18th October, 1889.) AMONG the many risks to which vessels navigating the sea channels near our coasts and the fairways leading to our ports are exposed, that of sunken or floating wrecks has of late years become very...
Category: Articles
Letters
Not just boats, you know The cover picture from your winter 2001/02 issue of the Lifeboat showed one of our squadron helicopters, Callsign Rescue 193, operating with a Severn class lifeboat. Inside you incorrectly identified this as an RAF...
Category: Correspondence