LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk. —At 3.20 in the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht to the south-east of Aldeburgh, with only one man aboard, was making heavy weather, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Lucy...
A Long Search on the Aberdeen Coast. Coxswain's Silver Medal and Second-Service Clasp In One Year
AT nine in the evening of 4th Novem- ber, 1937, many people in the village of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, heard the sound of a ship's siren, and thought that it must come from a ship dangerously close to the shore. A southerly gale was...
Category: Services
The Weather During the Year 1889
To the seaman the weather experienced during the year 1889 must be considered as exceptionally favourable, for, like its predecessors 1887 and 1888, storms were of very rare occurrence in the British Islands, and as a necessary consequence,...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and...
Category: Services
(Above) 44' Waveney Class Lifeboat Introduced from Us Coast Guard In 1964 Is First of the Rnli's 'Fast Afloat' Lifeboats Exceptionally Manoeuvrable Her Twin General
(Above) 44' Waveney class lifeboat, introduced from US Coast Guard in 1964, is first of the RNLI's 'fast afloat' lifeboats. Exceptionally manoeuvrable, her twin General Motors Detroit marine diesel engines give a top speed of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Venture III and Espardarte, and Cabin Cruiser Alcidan
At 10.27 p.m. on 22nd October, 1966, news was received that the cabin cruiser Alcidan was overdue on a passage from Weymouth and that the Norwegian tanker Maakfjell had taken three men off ayacht they had taken in tow. They were eleven and a...
From the Princess Elizabeth
IN 1947 the Princess Elizabeth sent the Institution £180, the balance of her wedding present from Kimberley.
At the beginning of 1948 her wedding dress was displayed in Edinburgh.
The Lord Provost...
Category: Donations
Called away from Ceremony
Just after the opening ceremony for Exmouth RNLI’s new boathouse, the crews’ pagers went off and guests saw both lifeboats launched on a real rescue.
A catamaran sailor had been injured and was picked up by a passing...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
THE history of the Institution is now being written, and will be published in the autumn of 1923. The Secretary will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS WATSON, on his retirement, after serving for 2J years as second coxswain, 19 years as bowman and 13 years as a member of the crew of the Cromarty life-boat, a life-boatman's certificate of service and an...
Category: Awards