LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glen Urquhart
Trawler talked in EYEMOUTH LIFEBOAT STATION honorary secretary received a message from the harbour master at 0030 on Thursday May 1, saying that the trawler Glen Urquhart, which had been bound for fishing grounds, was taking water and making...
Launching Life-Boats Off Slipways
Results of Tests with regard to Depth of Water, Speed of Launching and Construction.
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.FOR many years past the practice of launching Life-boats off...
Category: Articles
Belle Souris and Kaloma
Two yachts ON SUNDAY June 1, 1980, at 1732, Portland Coastguard reported to a deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station that red flares from one or two yachts had been sighted about five miles south of St Alban's...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
ONE of the happiest and most success- ful of annual Life-boat functions is the summer Road "Exercise and Launch of the Cullercoats Life-boat at Whitley Bay. On that day the Fishwives of Cullercoats, headed by Mrs. Mary Scott, th;...
Category: Articles
Right: a Real Casualty
Right: A real casualty is lifted into the lifeboat during Margate's service to Silke Po/axin December 1998.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Progress, Prosperity, Pilot Me, Lead Us, Easter Morn
Whitby, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th of April, 1959, an ex-coxswain of the life-boat, who is today a boathouse attendant, told the honorary secretary that while attending his boats in the upper harbour he had...
Britta
Dover, Kent. At 7.8 on the evening of the 15th of February, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the Swedish motor vessel Britta of Helsingborg, which had been in col- lision with the Italian tanker Mirella d'Amico...
Lifeboat Lexicon
Continuing our occasional series explaining lifeboat terms and operations Awards for Gallantry The RNLI has been making awards for gallantry since it was founded 175 years ago. In that time the system has evolved, both keeping pace with the...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Your Letters Continued Figurehead history Sir - During the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's existence, hundreds, if not thousands, of sailing ships were lost around the coast of the United Kingdom and many daring...
Category: Correspondence
A Message Was Received By the Honorary Secretary of Bembridge Lifeboat Station on Saturday July 30 to Say That An Engine Fire Now Extinguished Had Caused Compl
A message was received by the honorary secretary of Bembridge lifeboat station on Saturday, July 30, to say that an engine fire, now extinguished, had caused complete steering loss on a 48' ketch on passage from Poole to Le Havre. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs