LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Plucked from the sea
FRASERBURGH | 9 JULY
Two children were saved from the North Sea after being swept out 250m from the shoreline. The boy and girl, aged 12 and 13, were being battered by waves and were in danger of drowning. Quickly on scene, the...
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Chip and Who?
No, not the real Chippendales! These are actually members of Peterhead lifeboat crew doing a good imitation while modelling at the recent fashion show organised by Peterhead ladies' guild. Thanks to Mackays Stores and all the willing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Signals for Life-Boat Stations
THE want having been often felt of some general system of signals for intercommu- nication, on occasions of shipwreck, between life-boat stations when within signal distance of each other, the Committee have caused the following simple plan...
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A Yacht (3)
SURVIVORS TO HOSPITAL Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.10 p.m. on i4th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Nab pilot cutter had rescued four people from a yacht which had overturned. The life-boat was required as some of the...
Welcome
It’s always difficult to choose which rescues to feature in Lifeboat magazine. With an average of 23 people rescued a day, there’s a lot of courage and determination to choose from
A person in the water. Fishermen in a...
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Barbados
FEBRUARY 2ND . - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 10.35 A.M. a message was received from the Mablethorpe coastguard through the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Spurn, that a trawler was ashore N.W. of Donna Nook. A fresh E.S.E. breeze was...
Harry Sinclair
WITHERNSEA.—A vessel having been reported ashore about a mile S. of Withernsea, the Life-boat Admiral Horn was launched at about 1.10 A.M. on the 17th November, in a heavy sea, the wind blowing half a gale from the S.E., and saved the crew...
The Danish Schooner Sylphiden
On the llth June the Danish schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov, at anchor in St. Austel Bay, drove into shallow and broken water; when, hoisting a signal of distress, the Institution's life- boat at Polkerris, near Fowey, proceeded to her...
Our Branches
Where would the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION be without its Branches, of which there are nearly 400 spread over England, Scotland and Ireland! The Committee of Management of the Institution, as stated by them in their annual reports...
Category: Branches
The S.S. Escurial
HAYLE, CORNWALL. — The Life-boat K F. Harrison was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Escurial, of Glasgow, |which, having been disabled in a heavy gale, drifted ashore off Portieath. on the 25th January. The boat was taken on her...