LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Carillion of Wight
Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
Unseaworthy Ships
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, As the saving of life from shipwreck must always be a subject of great interest to the public of this country, by whatever means it may be...
Category: Correspondence
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 6. Mr. William Bertram, J.P., Hon. Secretary of the Dunbar and Skateraw Branch
NOWHERE on the coast of Scotland, or, indeed, on the coasts of the British Isles, has the Institution an Honorary Secre- tary who has worked harder and more successfully for the cause than Mr. Bertram at Dunbar.
For...
Category: Articles
Yacht Auriga and Haliday
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd November, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to the north-west. A whole gale was blowing from...
The Regulations of the Institution
THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 25th, 1933 - - - 63,502 The Regulations of the Institution.<...
Category: Committee
Letters
Dear Editor, I have been involved with or hanging around lifeboats since 1946 and have a fundraising silver badge.
The feature 'Lifeboating - an education' in the spring issue of the Lifeboat sparked off the...
Category: Correspondence
Channel Islands By Joan Davies
Channel Islands OUR MOST SOUTHERLY LIFEBOAT STATIONS by Joan Davies SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Sailing waters in the world; a cruising man's dream in themselves and the gateway to Brittany. Such are the seas which surround Alderney,...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats of Southern Eire
IREI.ANDS LINKS with the RNLI are almost as old as the Institution itself and the tradition of lifesaving around its rugged coastline stretches back to the turn of the century.
Guarding the busy shipping lanes bringing...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
The Listings section of this magazine shows just how often RNLI lifeboats launch. Here is a selection of the wide-ranging stories behind the statistics and, overleaf, full details of those rescues that merited formal awards Ex-lifeboat saved...
Category: Services
Caleb
A telephone message was received at Margate, about 4.30 on the morning of the 6th August, stating that a barge was in distress off Herne Bay, and steps were at once taken to launch the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet. Whilst this was being...