LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Daphne
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
Hover Staff Cash
Staff at Dover-based Hoverspeed raised £2,742 for lifeboats during a prize raffle at the company's New Year's party.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Rnli's First Tractor Launching Trials Took Place at Hunstanton In 1920
The RNLi's first tractor launching trials took place at Hunstanton in 1920.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yachts and Dinghies (1)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Transport Workers and the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a cheque from the Walthamstow Branch of the Transport and General "Workers' Union, and with it a letter, in which, the Branch Secretary writes:— " I hope to send a similar cheque every quarter. It...
Category: Articles
A Small Outboard-Powered Boat
Two saved by brothers andjifeboat The quick thinking of two young men who were about to take a swim in the Teign estuary undoubtedly saved the life of at least one of two people who were thrown into the water when their small outboardpowered...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly 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...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly 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...
Category: Articles
The Invasion Barge L.C. 1237
DECEMBER 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 1.15 in the afternoon a number of small invasion barges put into Margate Harbour.
A fresh easterly wind was blowing with a choppy sea. The officer-in-charge reported that...
Thallata
Margate, Kent. — At 2.35 in the afternoon of the 26th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a barge was ashore on the outer edge of the Margate Sands and at three o'clock the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI...