LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yachtsmen and the Life-Boat Service
SINCE the end of the war in 1945 the number of calls for life-boat assistance emanating from yachtsmen—a term used as conveniently indicating people who go to sea for pleasure rather than profit—has steadily increased. Life-boat calls to...
Category: Articles
Two Minutes
With huge numbers of visitors expected in the south west for the solar eclipse on 11 August the RNLI and the other emergency services had their contingency plans in place… Mike Floyd watched events unfold at the Coastguard MRCC at Falmouth...
Category: Articles
The Oil Rig Orion
Oil rig aground ST PETER PORT SIGNALS STATION received an 'all ships' warning at about 1900 on Wednesday, February 1, 1978, saying that, at 1850, Orion had parted from the German tug Seefalke in position 49°39'N,...
New Year Honours
Brigadier C. C. Fairweather, O.B.E., T.D., D.L., chairman of the Teesmouth station branch, has been made C.B.E. in the New Year Honours list.
Major K. G. Graves, J.P., chairman of the Ramsey station branch, has been awarded...
Category: Awards
Management of Boats In a Surf and Broken Water
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR,—I HAVE read with considerable interest your Article in the Life-Boat Journal, on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, and must beg to offer some remarks upon it;...
Category: Correspondence
Padstow Lifeboat Station Celebrates 175 Years of Saving Lives at Sea
Padstow has the second-oldest established lifeboat station in Cornwall. It was set up on 24 January 1827 mainly as a result of the efforts of Commander Williams, chief officer of coastguards. He collected C30 towards the cost of providing a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
July
Launches 40 Lives rescued 24
JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a...
Category: Services
SOS . . . and the Doctor Is There
The following article by Alex Dickson appeared in the Scottish Daily Mail in December. It is reproduced here by courtesy of the Scottish Daily Mail.
Beside every life-boat there hangs an extra set of bright yellow oilskins....
Category: Articles
As the Young See Us
The image of the RNLI affects almost every aspect of its operation. Without a high profile in the public eye the task of the fundraisers is made more difficult.
Concepts form at an early age, and the way youngsters perceive...
Category: Articles
A Grand Bit of Service
THE Gorleston Life-boat, the Marie Lane, which has such a magnificent record of fine work, added another page to her illustrious annals by the service rendered in connexion with the wreck of the schooner Dart, of Jersey, on the 29th March...
Category: Articles