LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Almeria
SHEERING BADLY Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.20 p.m. on 3rd May, 1964, the assistant secretary asked the second coxswain, in the absence of the coxswain, to launch the life-boat The Lilly Wainwright to go to the assistance of a motor...
Elizabeth, of Cardigan
On the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind, the smack Elizabeth, of Cardigan, got under weigh to cross the Bar, but in doing so, her jib sheet was blown away.
She then let go her two anchors; but the chains parted, and...
A Century Ago
BROWSING through earlier issues of THE LIFE-BOAT is always a fascinating occupation.
Recently we have been sent to the files in search of information on the old tubular life-boats, in which several members of the public...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Search through surf BLYTH LIFEBOAT, the 46' 9" Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) had launched on exercise on Monday, August 8, and was heading for the harbour mouth when, at 1007, a call was received from HM Coastguard...
The History of the Institution
ON 30th October the history of the Institution, during its first hundred years of work, was published under the title " Britain's Life-boats : A Century of Heroic Service." It has been written, at the request of the Committee...
Category: Articles
Border Falcon
Penlee, Cornwall. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th December, 1961, the port medical officer informed the honorary secretary that a seventeen- year-old apprentice on board the tanker Border Falcon of Newcastle was ill and...
Ina
Tyn_e tows coaster and crew to safety in worsening weather When the 210ft coaster Ina lost power off the Devon coast on 4 November 1997 she soon found herself aground by the stern on the Mewstone, just off Bolt Head. With a south-easterly...
Astraea and Alfred
BROADSTAIKS. — Flares were shown from vessels off the North Foreland while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy squalls of hail, on the 27th January, and, in response, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton...
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster on the 8th of March, 1955, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., Chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of...
Category: Meetings
Books (Including Tim Batstone's Windsurfing Advice)
• WHEN TIM BATSTONE confronted the RNLI with the news that he intended to circumnavigate Great Britain on a sail board and raise money for the Institution, the reaction was decidedly mixed.
Should an organisation so...
Category: Articles