LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Members of the Committee of Management
BRIGADIER N. B. Brading, C.M.G., C.B.E., Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, M.P., and the Duke of Atholl have been co- opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Brigadier Brading served as an officer of the East...
Category: Committee
Adventures of An Emmett
A few days before Jon Jones went on his West Country tour of lifeboat stations with the Dl, Sue Denny, RNLI Press and Public Information Manager was in the same area looking at stations through the eyes of a tourist… rset off bright and...
Category: Articles
Omega, of Newcastle
On the 23rd February, the ship Omega, of Newcastle, was stranded on the Cockle Sand, on the Norfolk coast, during a gale of wind. She afterwards drifted, and sankabout fourteen miles S.E. of Lowestoft.
The Yarmouth and...
Poole Lifeboat the 44' Waveney Augustine Courtauld on Saturday October 1 Went to the Help of a Catamaran Sparkle In Difficulty With Engine Failure One Mile East Of
Poole lifeboat, the 44' Waveney Augustine Courtauld, on Saturday, October 1, went to the help of a catamaran Sparkle, in difficulty with engine failure one mile east of Hengistbury Head. The wind was west north west, near gale force 7,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI INQUIRY into the capsizes of Barra Island and Islay lifeboats off the west coast of Scotland last November, reported on page 6, has concluded that both lifeboats were overwhelmed by heavy breaking seas in violent storm conditions...
Category: Articles
Weston-Super-Mare: the Cave on the South Side of Brean Down from Which Three Trapped Boys Were Rescued on November 12; on That Day a Full Southerly Gale Was B
Weston-super-Mare: The cave on the south side of Brean Down from which three trapped boys were rescued on November 12; on that day a full southerly gale was blowing and there was a rough sea with breaking surf. For this service the thanks of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE total number of launches by life- boats on service in 1960 was 714, the lives of 367 people being saved thereby.
The number of launches was appre- ciably less than in 1959, which had been a truly remarkable year, with a...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FILEY, YORKSHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 23rd March the fishing-boats engaged in crab-fishing put to sea for the purpose of hauling up their crab pots. The wind at the time was blowing strongly from the E.N.E.; later in the morning it increased....
Category: Services
Royal Arch, of Arbroath
ARBROATH.—At about 7 P.M. on the 13th April, while a strong gale was blowing from S.E., the fishing-boat Royal Arch, of Arbroath, was seen attempting to make the harbour. A very heavy sea was running, the tide was low and she was apparently...
Braes, of Moray
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The schooner Braes of Moray, of Peterhead, was observed ashore on the Out Carrs rocks, at about 6 A.M., on the 26th November. The Life-boat William Hopkinson of Srighouse was at once got out, several of the...