LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Boats (1)
Three stranded A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC dialled 999 at 1937 on Thursday, September 3, 1987 to alert Milford Haven Coastguard to two boats in heavy surf off Broad Haven, moving towards Goultrop Roads.
A RAF Sea King helicopter...
The Chief Rabbi's Appeal for the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a personal letter from the Very Rev. the Chief Rabbi, Dr. J. H. Hertz, Ph.D., ex- pressing the hope that the Jews of Great Britain will respond generously to the appeal of the life-boat service.
Category: Correspondence
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles
Linear II
Life in the old girl yet! The Robert, Beaumaris1 Watson class lifeboat bid a fine farewell during her passage back to the RNLI's Poole depot following her withdrawal from service in July.
She was called into service...
Swimming Collars
SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...
Category: Articles
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Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1954.
the St. Anthony coastguard reported that what appeared to be an upturned boat had been seen half a mile off Hemmick Beach, to the west of Dod- man. At...
Poole:
Poole: Poole Yacht Club in Hamworthy was where, on Wednesday May 8, 1985, the naming and service of dedication took place for the station's new 20ft Boston Whaler Outrage lifeboat, the only boat of this type in the RN LI fleet. She was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cadet Training Barge Kenya Jacaranda
At 4.30 p.m. on 6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a Thames spritsail barge was aground on Margate Hook sands and asked if the IRB could investigate. She had not fired any distress signals but appeared to be in...
JOINT RESPONSE
A swimmer gets into danger off the coast of Northern Ireland – just as local RNLI lifeguards are about to clock off for the night
Wednesday 27 June, and another day was drawing to a close on Portrush’s East Strand Beach....
Category: Articles