In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 642, 646 and 648, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January, February, 1969,...
Category: Services
I thought you might like to have this photograph (see below) of my husband, Mr A. D. van der Maas, to add to your collection of photos of people working to raise money for the RNLI. He weaves and sells these rope mats and does other ropework... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
AUG. 14TH. - PENLEE, AND COVERACK, CORNWALL. A French trawler had been reported in difficulties off the Lizard, but neither life-boat could find any sign of her. - Rewards : Penlee, £12 1s. ; Coverack, £10 6s..
AUG. 14TH. - PENLEE, AND COVERACK, CORNWALL. A French trawler had been reported in difficulties off the Lizard, but neither life-boat could find any sign of her. - Rewards : Penlee, £12 1s. ; Coverack, £10 6s..
HARWICH.—-At noon on the 7th Feb., in answer to a telegram, the Springwtll Life-boat was manned and put off to the rescue of the crew of a vessel ashore on the Shipwash Sand. A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing at the time, and the sea was...
The "Splendid" Poor.
LIFE-BOAT Day was held throughout Greater London on 20th May, except in Baling, where it was held on 27th September. The Day was organized by the Central London Women's Com- mittee of...
Category: Articles
30-mile tow to safety for yacht adrift among rigs The rescue of two people from a yacht kept Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat at sea for 12 hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 28 September 1988. More than nine hours were spent towing the...
Front Cover Exactly twenty years on - the same photo, but with different boats and different crews - see the News pages in this issue for the full story.
by Colin Watson Any products or services advertised in The Lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
AUGUST 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.52 in the morning the life-boat coxswain saw a vessel lying on the Goodwin Sands.
He telephoned the coastguard station for confirmation and at 9.40 the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary...
IN pointing out at the annual meeting in London on 8th April, 1970, that the operational record of the life-boat and inshore rescue boat crews had been a triumphant one, the Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir...
Category: Meetings