LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Development of the Barnett Twin-Screw Motor Life-Boat
Boats for Plymouth and Aberdeen.
IN October, 1924, the Institution laid down two more Motor Life-boats of the Barnett Twin-Screw type for Plymouth and Aberdeen. The first reached her Station on July 1st, and the 2nd on...
Category: Articles
Sheena
CHANCE MEETING SAVES DINGHY SAILOR Hastings, Sussex. On Sunday the 28th of July, 1963, while returning from a visit to Bexhill Regatta, the life-boat M.T.C.
intercepted a motor boat towing the sailing dinghy Sheena with a...
LIVES RISKED IN THE RIP
Constantly reading the conditions in sea and sky, lifeguards can prevent many incidents before they even begin. But when a rip current pulled a bodyboarder out to sea, one Devon team proved they were ready to give their...
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Friends, Provide Us and Serene (2)
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Lifeboat Services
Ireland Division Harbour tug to the rescue AT ABOUT NOON on Saturday, January 12,1974, the Royal Ulster Constabulary were told that a small dinghy was in difficulties off Ballgalley Head. Police Sergeant D. McCutcheon drove out to the Head...
Category: Services
Charles Livingstone
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...
Corbon, of Newcastle
Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat,...
Coastguards Honoured
The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Douglas Jay, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year 1965-66 to the Walton-on-Naze Coastguard Rescue Company for their rescue of nine men by breeches buoy from the stranded motor...
Category: Awards
Moving With the Times
From humble beginnings in London's Austin Friars, RNLI Head Office has come a long way from its original one-room operation...
The RNLI started life in the City of London, then the financial centre of the world, and the...
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An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia (1)
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...