LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
Crew member swims to stranded yachtWells' Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill was called to the aid of a 28ft yacht which was stranded on Blakeney Point on 31 July 1993, rescuing the yacht the two adults and two children on...
Category: Services
The Annual Meetings '99
A year in the life of the KNLI… The RNLH's anniversary year annual meetings were held at the Barbican on 1j May 1999.
As well as 'Pfiviunt'pf a review of another hii' successful year Chairman David Acland...
Category: Meetings
Fifty-Two Lives Rescued. A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay
A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
EARLY in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer English Trader, of London, ran ashore on Checkstone Ledge, at the entrance to Dartmouth harbour, owing to the temporary failure...
Category: Services
To the Rescue of a London Barge at Walton-on-Naze
THE barges Esterel and Yampa, of London, were on their way from London to Norwich with cargoes of maize on the 4th November, 1939.
When nearly opposite Orfordness they were caught by an easterly gale. Both barges turned...
Category: Services
Fine Joint Save at Margate
FOR the rescue of four men from the m.f.v. Jaroma, a letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.s.o., has been addressed to Coxswain Alfred Manning and the crew of the Margate, Kent...
Category: Services
Two Dinghies (1)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
A Sailboard, PowerBoats and a Yacht
Anticipatory launch ends in eight calls on two lifeboats Eastbourne South East Division Both of Eastbourne's lifeboats were launched in anticipation of problems on 17 July 1988, when freshening conditions on the day of the London to...
Pull Out
Pull out RNLI AGM and APA An invitation to all supporters It has been another busy year for the RNLI. Supporters can re? ect on the events of 2007 at the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Annual Presentation of Awards (APA) at the...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
Cullercoats, Northumberland. -— On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from...
Category: Services
The S.S. Meriones
JANUARY 25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
In the early morning of the 22nd January,the S.S. Meriones, of Liverpool, stranded on the Haisborough Sands three-quarters of a mile east by north of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy. She...