LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RNLI and me: James Cracknell
WHO IS JAMES CRACKNELL?
When he retired from competitive rowing in 2006, James Cracknell OBE had two Olympic Gold Medals and six World Championship titles under his belt. In the same year, he and TV presenter/adventurer Ben Fogle...
Category: Articles
Pearl and a Catamaran
Catamaran in distress THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Lyme Regis inshore lifeboat station was informed by Portland Coastguard at 1135 on Monday May 28, 1979, that a red flare had been fired from a white boat about l'/2 miles south of Beer Head...
Lord Wakefield's Gifts. A New Motor Life-Boat and Boat-House at Hythe, Kent
THE Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, G.C.V.O., C.B.E., LL.D., who is vice- president of the Hythe, Kent, branch, has presented to the Institution the whole cost, amounting to £9,669 2s. 9d., of the new motor life-boat which was stationed at...
Category: Donations
Life-Saving By the Coastguard In 1937
IN 1937 the coastguard organization took action in 314 cases in which vessels or aircraft were either observed or reported to be in distress, in difficul- ties, or overdue off the coasts of Great Britain and Northern...
Category: Articles
London Boat Show
'BRING ME SUNSHINE' was the theme of the 27th London International Boat Show, set against a Caribbean background, at Earls Court from January 8 to 18, so who else could have opened it but Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise? Always good...
Category: Articles
The Fishery Protection Cruiser Freya
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 8.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Helman Head, and ten minutes later more flares were seen six miles east of Clythness...
Ceremonies
Relief - D class Pride ofNuneaton and Bedworth The Borough ofNuneaton and Bedworth is over 90 miles from the sea, but the May or, Councillor Bob Copland, decided to make the funding of two D class lifeboats the aim of his Civic Appeal. Aided...
Category: Inaugurations
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE of WALES, K.G.
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES
H.R.H. THE DUKE of EDINBURGH,...
Category: Advertisement
Ecclefechan
DUNBAR.—While a moderate. E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the morning of the 23rd February, intelligence was received that a. large vessel, which was subsequently ascertained to be the fourmasted barque...
Lucy Jane
On the 13th November the fishing-boat Lucy Jane, which had been out fishing for herrings, got into difficulties when about three miles from Clovelly and was in danger of being swamped. The Life-boat Elinor Boget was launched and suc- ceeded...