LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Life-boats Sent to the Coast
After the first sixteen months of the war the building of new life-boats almost ceased, and during the five years, eight months and five days of war, the Institution was able to send to the coast only seventeen new life-boats instead of the...
Category: Articles
A Punt
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—A routine exer- cise had been arranged for the life-boat A.E.D. at 2.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1953, but at 1.40, when the coxswain, motor mechanic and his assistant were preparing her for sea, the...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD.—On the 4th of April, 1886, at midnight, the schooner Lorn, of Lan- caster, bound from Wicklow for Liver- pool, showing signals of distress during a moderate gale from the S.W., the Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance...
Category: Services
One Hundred Years at Hartlepool
Five Hartlepool men, who between them have served the RNLI for more than 100 years, were presented with awards for long service by Guy Flatten (former deputy divisional inspector for the North) on 30 January.
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Category: Photographs
The S.S. Sylvafield
DOCTOR TO A SCALDED MAN Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of February 12th, 1947, a firm of shipping agents in Belfast tele- phoned requesting the help of the life- boat to take a doctor out to a vessel at anchor in Carrick...
The S.S. Waesland
NORTH DEAL AND WALMER.—On the night of the 4th March the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville, and the Walmer Lifeboat Civil Service No. 4, were launched to the assistance of the s.s.' Waesland, of and for Antwerp, from New York, with a...
Katharine
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. The schooner Katharine, of Banff, bound from Bo'ness for Poole with a cargo of coal, struck on the North Steel Bocks, off Boulmer, in a S.S.E. wind and a high sea, on the morning of the 2nd November,foggy weather...
Lifeboats In Action
Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...
Category: Services
Rescue By Twelve-year-old Boy
Ian Gillies, a twelve*-year-pld boy from Gourock, has been awarded an inscribe wrist watch for an act of exceptional gallantry. He has also received a franm letter of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain 'th...
Category: Articles
Nordanhar
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - On 21st February, 1970, the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched and rescued the crew of ten of the Swedish motor vessel Nordanhar. A full account of the service will appear in the next number of THE...