LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dungeness ‘Lady Launcher’ Doris Tart (pictured above, front)
It is with sadness that the Lifeboat reports the passing away of Dungeness ‘lady launcher’ Doris Tart (pictured above, front) on 30 April at Ashford’s William Harvey Hospital, aged 85.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dinner to the Ramsgate Life-Boat Men
(From Pullen's Kent Argus, 1st Dec., 1888.) THE triennial dinner to Ramsgate Lifeboat men, the expenses of which are defrayed by the interest of 200Z. left by the late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., took place on the 29th November, at...
Category: Articles
The Danish Fishing Vessel Bent Erik
APRIL 6TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
About 4.30 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was a shore at Covesea Skerries and a few minutes later reported that she was firing red lights. At five o’clock the...
Tribute to Life-Boat Designer
A MAN who can truly be said to have devoted his working life to the Life-boat Service, and whose name is likely always to figure prominently in the history of life-boat design and construction, has retired from the full-time service of the...
Category: Articles
Franklin Mint Limited,
SOCIETY SPONSORS INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CLOCK • • JL I A Barometer, Thermometer, Compass and Clock - in a Superb Re-creation of an Antique Ship's Lantern.
effecting 300 years of history, this golden masterpiece...
Category: Advertisement
Yla Section
MEMBER MAKES SAVE MEMBER No. 4992-F, Mr. P. V. Wright, Newtownards, Co. Down, in his 28 ft converted ship's boat Wavechaser effected a dramatic rescue of three people in a stiff wind and heavy sea in Strangford Lough on 15th July. We...
Category: Articles
International Boat Show
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution exhibited at the International Boat Show at Earl's Court, London, on 3rd-13th January, 1973, the first of a new type of life-boat. She was a Rother class boat (see photograph above), in direct...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services from Page 191
Lifeboat Services from page 191 he would ground and he was advised to anchor.
A quarter of an hour later Pass of Dirriemore had dropped her anchor some seven miles south west of Hartland, and it held. By 0300 the wind had...
Category: Services
The Wreck of the S.S. "Rohilla."
THE services rendered in connexion with the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla have added another splendid page to the annals of heroism and humanity which make up the story of the Life-boat during the ninety years since the foundation of...
Category: Articles
Pilot
WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—A telephone message was received from the coastguard at Galloways, stating that a ketch was ashore, on the morning of the 23rd February. The Life-boat John William Dudley was launched at 8.40, in a rough sea, a strong S....