LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gale-force teamwork
New Quay and Pwllheli’s all-weather lifeboats worked together to rescue the crew of the Galasma on 6 September. The yacht, with fi ve people onboard, was having trouble in a force 8 northerly wind. Rough seas meant she wasn’t making much...
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Family affair
Newbiggin lifeboat had a call out with a twist on 15 November 2010, as two members of the crew found themselves rescuing some familiar faces. Two men in the traditional fishing coble Crystal Sea called Humber Coastguard at 10.40am, reporting...
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Next generation is born
Sea trials of the prototype Shannon class lifeboat are underway. She is pictured here proving her ability to selfright.
This new all-weather lifeboat class, due to go into service next year, will be powered by waterjets,...
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Veritas,of Antwerp
On the 29th January the brig Veritos, of Antwerp, was observed with .signals of dis- tress flying, near the Manacles Rocks, on the Cornish Coast, during a whole gale from W.N.W. The life-boat Western Commer- cial Traveller at once put off,...
The S.S. Miltrap
SEPT. 22ND. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.8 P.M. it was reported by the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress near the Plough Seat Rocks. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. The...
Dorothea
RAMSGATE. — At 9 P.M. on the 31st January, when blowing hard from the S.W., in answer to signals of distress from the Gull Lightship, the steam-tug Aid, with the Life-boat Bradford in tow, proceeded to the dismasted barque Dorothea, of...
Just one inch of water
Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...
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The Founding of the Institution. The Report of the First Meeting
THE Institution was founded at a meeting held in the City of London Tavern on 4th March, 1824, with the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Manners Sutton), in the chair. The twelve resolutions which called the Institution into being and laid down...
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Larissa
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M.
on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel...
A Barque
A telephone message was received from Bacton reporting a barque -with signals of distress flying, on the 27th March. A whole gale was blowing from N.E. by E., the sea was very heavy and the •weather very cold, with squalls of hail. The crew...