LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Pink
Plymouth, Devon - At 4.30 p.m. on 17th April, 1968, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy had capsized close to the Longroom signal station. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped her moorings at 4.37 in a gusty east south...
Retirement of Commander T. Holmes, R.N.
IT is with great regret that we have to announce the retirement, under the age limit, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, on completing twenty-seven years' service, and we feel sure that our regret will...
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A Curragh
Galway Bay, Galway.—At 6 P.M. on the 1st August, 1939, a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
A Catamaran
Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 p.m. on 9th April, 1964, the inshore rescue boat no.
14 was launched to help a sailing dinghy which had been seen to capsize half a mile south-east of the life-boathouse. There was a fresh southerly...
A New Fast Type of Motor Life-Boat
Ax important development in Motor Life-boat construction has been decided upon. The aim of the Institution in the design and construction of Motor Lifeboats and their engines, suitable,for the work of rescuing life from shipwreck under all...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
METHIL and BUCKHAVEN, FIFESHIRE— I On the application of the local residents a new Life-boat station has been formed at Buckhaven, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, where there are plenty of fishermen available to work the...
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What's on this Summer
With warmer weather and longer days finally here, RNLI stations are preparing for their Summer festivities. See you there!
Portpatrick Lifeboat Week
Set...
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Your shout
Here are just a few of the many warm communications received in response to our issue featuring the new RNLI memorial to those who have lost their lives attempting to save lives at sea:
My interest in lifeboats began when...
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Diver Boy
Newhaven, Sussex - At 4.40 p.m. on 8th January, 1967, the coastguard in-formed the honorary secretary that two red flares had been reported seven to 10 miles off Seaford Head. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.50 in a gentle...
A Sunderland Aircraft
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 4th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Sunderland aircraft of the Royal Air Force had crashed when landing half a mile south-east of the life-boathouse.
Ten...