LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Weather During the Year 1889
To the seaman the weather experienced during the year 1889 must be considered as exceptionally favourable, for, like its predecessors 1887 and 1888, storms were of very rare occurrence in the British Islands, and as a necessary consequence,...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and...
Category: Services
Sea Venture III and Espardarte, and Cabin Cruiser Alcidan
At 10.27 p.m. on 22nd October, 1966, news was received that the cabin cruiser Alcidan was overdue on a passage from Weymouth and that the Norwegian tanker Maakfjell had taken three men off ayacht they had taken in tow. They were eleven and a...
H.M. Coastguard
The Institution's best wishes for many happy years of retirement go to Commander D. F. White, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R. (Retd.), who relinquished his post as Chief Inspector of H.M. Coastguard at the end of 1965.
Commander...
Category: Articles
Mary Ann
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.48 on the morning of the llth August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had put out earlier in the evening with the owner and his son on board to go fishing and...
Every Year Many Delegates from Overseas Are Welcomed at Rnli Headquarters Poole One Page from the Visitors' Book Covering Just Three Weeks In March 1979 Re
Every year many delegates from overseas are welcomed at RNLI headquarters, Poole. One page from the visitors' book, covering just three weeks in March, 1979, records signatures of 12 visitors from the USA, Chile, China and the United... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Ship Maria Asumpta (1)
Three lifeboats search for survivors from wrecked sailing ship Lifeboats from three stations were involved in the search for survivors when the 137-year-old sailing ship Maria Asumpta foundered after running ashore on the rocky North...
"Sublime Impertinence."
OUR District Organizing Secretary in I the North of England has sent us the | following story as an example of " the i value of the sovereign and the power of ; suggestion." It is an excellent example also of the gift, invaluable...
Category: Articles
The Danish Fishing Vessels Clupea, Rosslau, Anne Stranne and Kami
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS WATSON, on his retirement, after serving for 2J years as second coxswain, 19 years as bowman and 13 years as a member of the crew of the Cromarty life-boat, a life-boatman's certificate of service and an...
Category: Awards