LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sea School Training Vessel Radium
Buckie, Banffshire. At 9.32 on the night of the 1st of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen five miles north-west of Buckie. There was a light east-south-easterly wind with a...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WEXFORD, IRELAND.—The No. 1 (large) Life-boat, placed at Wexford about four- teen years since, having become unfit for further service, it was replaced by the Institution in November, 1871—a very fine boat, 40 feet long and 10 feet wide,...
Category: Articles
Busy Holiday Months
THE summer of this year has not been as busy a time for the life-boats as the record summer of 1948, but during June, July and August life-boats were launched 169 times and rescued 92 lives.
In 88 of those 169 launches the...
Category: Services
Raylight
Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...
International Boat Show
For eleven days the RNLI stand, on a splendid site, was thronged with old and new friendsAFTER THE TREMENDOUS SUCCESS of the RNLI stand at last year's Boat Show, when there were two lifeboats and two inshore lifeboats on display and the...
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Life-Saving and the United States Coast Guard
MARITIME safety in the United States took a giant step forward on the 28th of January, 1915, when two historic agencies, the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service, were merged into a single organization known as the United States...
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The S.S. Martaban
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 3.55 early on the morning of the llth of March, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Martaban, whose position was eight miles south-by-west of Mumbles Head, had a fire in...
An Airbed
Airbed A BOY AND A GIRL being blown out to sea on an airbed off Ardrossan were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1525 on Tuesday June 21. Five minutes later Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat...
A Small Boat
Outboard failed A SMALL BOAT which had fired a hand flare off Crackington Haven was reported to the honorary secretary of Bude lifeboat station by Hartland Coastguard at 1500 on Saturday May 29. Maroons were fired and at 1505 the D class...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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Stations I His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.Gk HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
H.R.H. THE DUKE OF SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA, DUKE OF EDINBURGH,...
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