LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Catamaran
Two crew rescued from disabled catamaran after rigging cut free Falmouth lifeboat coxswain Alan Barnes and crew member Peter Wood have been awarded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following the rescue of two people and...
Workboat International
E - U - R - O - P - E - S L - A - R - G - E - S - T The European Workboat Show has expanded rapidly and successfully with last year's visitors voting the show a huge success.
Well over 5000 trade visitors, from over 40...
Category: Advertisement
Via
Bed port fires having been observed on the outside part of the Middle Scroby Sand, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N. accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 4th July, the crew of the Lifeboat Beanehamp were summoned and at 3.5 A.M....
The S.S. Glendenning
JANUARY 19TH. - BLYTH, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At about 11 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the rocks close to the east pier.
A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing, with very heavy seas. The motor life-boat...
Ex-Coxswain Robert Smith, of Tynemouth
BY the death of ex-Coxswain Kobert Smith of Tynemouth, on 30th October last, in his eightieth year, one of the greatest of the Institution's Coxswains has passed away. No man more gallantly and more honourably carried on the great...
Category: Obituaries
Two Naming Ceremonies In Northumberland. Cullercoats and Boulmer
Two new motor life-boats on the coast of Northumberland have been named this year, at Cullercoats and Boulmer.
Cullercoats.
A new motor life-boat was stationed at Cullercoats this year, replacing a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
Yla Section
SAFETY RULES A skipper whose 60-foot motor yawl rammed a 12-foot sailing dinghy, shipwrecking the latter crew, was fined £2 in January for careless navigating in Chichester harbour. The defendant had pleaded guilty to navigating a...
Category: Articles
Swimming
FROM time to time the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has endeavoured to keep before the public eye the neces- sity for increased efforts to promote the extension of the art of swimming, and in doing this it has only been acting up to...
Category: Articles
Joan Maureen
Breaking up SOLENT COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 2051 on Wednesday October 5, 1983, that red flares had been sighted close inshore off Selsey Bill and requested that the 15ft 6in D class inflatable...
Fitz's Flyer
Four rescued HEARING, soon after 1300 on Sunday December 14, 1980, that a yacht firing red flares had been reported off Eastoke Head, Hayling Island, Crew Member Frank Dunster together with Trevor Pearce, a shore helper and first aider, and...