LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Angling Boat
Injured angler A RED FLARE in the Bracklesham Bay area was spotted at 1005 on Sunday, December 7, 1986 by Hayling Island Crew Member Graham Raines, who advised Solent Coastguard. The station honorary secretary agreed to alert the crew and...
Jason
MOTOR BOAT DRIFTS FOR SIXTEEN HOURS Shor?ham Harbour, Sussex. The Shorehum coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary at 10.30 on the morning of Sunday the 29th September, 1963, to say they had received a report that the motor boat Jason...
Washed Over Harbour Wall
Two private individuals who put out in a boat from a Cornish village after some people had been washed over the harbour wall have both been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum. They are Mr. Terence Sawyer and Mr. Frank...
Category: Services
The Ferry Nordic Ferry (2)
Ferry fire puts all emergency services on alert at Harwich Harwich, Walton andFrinton and Aldeburgh East and South East Divisions Four lifeboats, three helicopters, three tugs and a harbour launch were despatched to the passenger and cargo...
Speedwell
On receipt of a message on the morning of the 1st July, stating that a yacht was aground on the West Hoyle Bank, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 11.45, and on reaching the vessel found she was the Speedwell, cutter-rigged, of...
Self-Righting and Non-Self-Righting Life-Boats. Losses Through Capsizing Since 1850
THE discussion in the Press and elsewhere which followed the Rye disaster showed that the public was very far from understanding the relative merits of self-righting Life-boats and of those which do not self-right, or the reasons which...
Category: Articles
Support for the American!British Lifeboat Appeal is growing on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York last September, after a Silver Jubilee performance by the Band of the Grenadier Guards and the Pipes and Drums of the Scots Guards, a reception in
Support for the American!British Lifeboat Appeal is growing on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York last September, after a Silver Jubilee performance by the Band of the Grenadier Guards and the Pipes and Drums of the Scots Guards, a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Too hot yacht
12 January: Lifeboats from Dun Laoghaire were called out shortly after midday to a yacht with a suspected fire onboard, probably due to an overheating engine. The lifeboat took the six crew members off the 11m...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—-At 10.20 P.M. on the 1st June the coastguard saw a flare at sea about four miles out. The life-boat was off service for survey and a motor boat manned by two men put out and searched. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing,...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coast- guardman arrived and informed the cox-...
Category: Services