LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Witch
ADRIFT OVER 18 HOURS At 10.13 a-m- on 2^th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fleet auxiliary vessel Tidepool was standing by the converted ship's lifeboat Witch, which had broken down and was drifting nine...
Membership News
Meeting the need Every year there is a rise in the number calls for help received by the RNLI's volunteer crews. In 1994 lifeboats launched 6,156 times - itself a record - but just a year later the figure for 1995 stood at 7,312 launches...
Category: Articles
Normauwil
Belgian trawler LAND'S END COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Penlee lifeboat station at 0200 on Wednesday March 19, 1980, that the Belgian trawler Normauwil was stranded near the north arm of Newlyn Harbour, a mile north...
Scarborough Life-Boat Brought Ashore for Inspection
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Category: Photographs
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South Eastern Division Injured climber SWANAGE COASTGUARD requested the launch of Swanage lifeboat at 1710 on Saturday June 16, 1979, to go to the help of a seriously injured cliff climber at Ragged Rocks, some quarter of a mile west of...
Holba
Dover, Kent.—At 5.50 in the after- noon on the 10th of December, 1949, the life-boat bowman picked up a wireless message. It said that the trawler Holba, of London, with a crew of two, had been disabled when four miles south-west of...
Sea Trader
At 5 a.m. on zoth June, 1967, it was learned that a fishing vessel out of Rye was overdue. After further inquiries the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 5.30 in a gentle northerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing. The...
Bexhill
On the evening of the 28th October, a flare was seen in the direction of the Brake Sand. A fresh gale of wind was then blowing from the N.N.E. with rain, and there was a heavy sea on the sand.
The Ramsgate Life-boat was at...
Oceanic
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.27 A.M. on the 16th September, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that the Brake Light-vessel had reported that the barge Oceanic, which was near her, had a man on board dangerously ill, and that the skipper wanted to get...