LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coast- guardman arrived and informed the cox-...
Category: Services
The 12-Feet Sailing Boat Pandora and Henrietta
Moelfre, Anglesey. — In the after- noon of the 21st of June, 1952, a strong wind had suddenly sprung up, and at 1.30 a sailing boat was seen to be drifting towards Dulas Island. The life-boat G.W. was launched at 2.15.
A...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The work of the Institution mainly consists of:— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
2. Payments...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Thule
Canter, Norfok. — At 7.40 in the morning of. the 15th of June, 1948, continuous short blasts on a steam whistle could be heard to the north-east, and five minutes later the Great Yar- mouth coastguard telephoned that a tanker was...
Mr. Stanhope Bone
Mr. Stanhope Bone, who died on the 30th of October, 1959, at the age of 79, was the Institution's Surveyor of Life- boats from 1929 to 1940. He first joined the Institution's surveying staff in 1912 and later served as R.A.S.L. at...
Category: Obituaries
Hero, of London
Most admirable service was also per- formed on the morning of the 16th Oct. by the Walmer Life-boat Centurion, as will be seen by the report furnished by the Coxswain of the Life-boat as follows.
He says, " It was...
Nellie
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.44 on the night of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had been seen to burn flares one mile off Minster, Isle of Sheppey.
At 10.15 the life-boat Greater...
A Catamaran
Disabled catamaran THE HONORARY SECRETARY OF Mudeford lifeboat station received a pager call from the Coastguard at 1845 on Wednesday July 11, 1984, after reports that a catamaran had overturned and was in difficulties off Chewton Bunny.<...
The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
A Sailing Boat and Dinghy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 9.40 on the evening of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from some boys that a boat was being carried out to sea by the strong ebb tide and that the...