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Sea Ranger

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10 p.m.

on 2nd August, 1965, the motor yacht Queen of the Isles reported that a yacht was sinking three miles east of Menawethan.

Fifteen minutes later the lifeboat...

Cover Picture

Date: Winter 1978

Volume: 45

Issue: 463

One of Weston-super-Mare's two inshore lifeboats is an 18' 6" McLachlan. Designed byJ.A. McLachlan ofG. L. Watson and Co., Glasgow, she is built of glass reinforced plastic and has a ragged chine. With twin inboard petrol... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Close on £590 was raised at the annual Colchester flag day on 13th June, 1970,

Date: October 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 433

Close on £590 was raised at the annual Colchester flag day on 13th June, 1970, and the earlier house-to-house collection. Both were organised by Mrs. Norman Clarke, secretary of the Colchester ladies' life-boat guild, whose husband... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Ellen Harrison

Date: November 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 254

At about 5.30 A.M. on the 31st March flares were ob- served from Moelfre Island. A strong S.W. gale prevailed at the time, with rough sea, and the Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was launched. On arriving at the north side of the Island...

Annual Report

Date: May 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 88

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, on Friday, the 21st day of March, 1873, The Right Hon. SIR SYDNEY H. WATERLOW, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, the following Report of...

Category: Annual Reports

A Punt and Mohawk

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

Sunderland, Durham.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of March, 1954, the Whitburn police told the coast- guard that three boys were adrift in a punt a mile east of Souter lighthouse.

The coastguard telephoned the life-...

Unsung Heroes: Frances Hudson

Date: Autumn 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 625 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2018

A volunteer describes her recent experience helping to preserve old photographs for future generations
What is your role?
I’ve been cleaning and digitising glass plates, part of a large collection of old lifeboat...

Category: Articles

Peaceful

Date: July 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 346

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—Just before four o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th of March, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor boat that appeared to be in difficulties off Lizard Point, Tresco. The wind was rising. By five...

The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: May 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 136

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on -which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: May 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 140

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...

Category: Articles