LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emergency Evacuation
Margate’s all-weather lifeboat, the sturdy 12m Mersey class Leonard Kent, was dwarfed by the vessel to which she was called out on 2 December.
A Russian cargo ship was anchored, waiting for better weather to continue her...
Category: Articles
Petersfield
The steamer Priestfield of Newcastle, a vessel of upwards of 4000 tons gross tonnage, stranded to the S.W. of Morthoe Point in a thick fog on the night of the 7th—8th May. She was bound from Antwerp to Barry in ballast, and had a crew on...
January
JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...
Category: Services
Life-boats at Dunkirk
Nineteen of the Institution’s life-boats helped to bring off men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940. Two of these life-boats, Ramsgate and Margate, were manned by their own crews. They...
Category: Services
Portrait on the Cover
The portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Henry Walker, of Holy Island, Northum- berland, who hasjust retired from theserv- ice. He was appointed coxswain at the be- ginning of 1945 and previously served for some eighteen months as bowman....
Category: Articles
The New Quay, Cardiganshire, Life-Boat Returning With the Body of a Man on 16th August, 1967
The NewQuay, Cardiganshire, life-boat returning with the body of a man on 16th August, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature: a Pier Without Equal
A pier without equal It was the collision of the Bowbelle and Marchioness in 1989 and the resulting 51 deaths that led the Government to ask the RNLI to provide a lifeboat service on the Thames. Now the RNLI's busiest lifeboat station of...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 6.—The 41-Feet Beach (Aldeburgh) Type
WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...
Category: Articles
Increased Rewards for Life-Boat Services
IN accordance with the policy laid down by the Committee of Management some time ago, the scale of' Rewards given to the Coxswains and Crews of Life-boats for going afloat to save life has again been raised, the higher Rewards taking...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Swanage, Dorset - At 6.15 p.m. on 18th June, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men were clinging to a capsized dinghy off Durleston head. At 6.21 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a moderate south westerly wind...