LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....
Littlestone-On-Sea
Littlestone-on-Sea lifeboat station, Romney Marsh in Kent, has for many years sold souvenirs from a table in the boathouse; now it has a new souvenir shop. It was designed by Ken Boardman (I), the station honorary secretary, and Crew Member... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three and a Half Years of War.
In three and a half years of war our life-boats have rescued 5100 lives, and our life-boatmen have won 177 medals for gallantry. Twenty-eight lives have been rescued every week since the war began..
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (5)
FEBRUARY 9TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 3.50 P . M . the coastguard reported a British aeroplane in difficulties, and a few minutes later the news came that the aeroplane was down in the sea. Her position was given at...
M.F.V. 7
Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...
Halcyon, and the Barges Tintara and Portlight
NOVEMBER 12-13TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and many vessels, held up by the gale, were in danger to the windward of Southend pier. The motor lifeboat, Greater London (Civil Service No....
An Aeroplane (38)
OCTOBER 2ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A German aeroplane had crashed in flames, but no survivors could be found.- Paid permanent crew. - Rewards, £1 4s..
Web of support
Silverware, a blue tick and tens of thousands of fans: all signs that supporters like you are enjoying keeping in touch with the RNLI using the internet.
The RNLI's website, relaunched in Summer 2012, recently won Best...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year 1884-85
No Wreck Register having been issued this autumn by the BOARD OF TRADE, we are unable, as has been our wont for upwards of thirty years, to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, with a Chart showing the wrecks and...
Category: Articles