LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (1)
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
Unsung Heroes
Mary Jacinta Casey
How did you first get involved with the RNLI? When I was growing up, we always had a collection box in our pub, and I used to help count the money!
What does being an RNLI...
Category: Articles
The Royal Marine Landing Craft L.136
GROUNDED CREW A red flare sighted in the vicinity of the Bernbridge Ledge buoy on 14th June, 1971, led to the Bembridge, Isle of Wight, life-boat the Jack Shayler and the Lees being launched at 11.40 p.m.
in an east north...
A German Aeroplane’s Rubber Dinghy
DECEMBER 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
Shortly before 10 A.M. the coastguard reported an object, apparently a boat, about one mile E.S.E. of Sizewell look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at...
A Dinghy (2)
At 9.25 p.m. on 5th June, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off the R7 buoy. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 9.40 in a moderate south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was...
A Mid-Winter Service
By Major-General the Rt. Hon. John E. Bernard Seeley, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
[Major-General Seely has been a Member of the Committee of Management of the Institution for over twenty-eight years.
He has...
Category: Services
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 5 P.M. on the 21st August, an open out- board motor boat, with three men and...
Category: Services
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. At nine o’clock on the night of the 5th of July, 1946, the Margate coastguard asked a local boatman to go to the help of the fishing boat Barbie, which appeared to be drifting seawards. A light south-west...
Category: Services
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Dingaling (1)
Atlantics join forces to save yacht crew on Chichester Bar The Institution's Bronze medal for bravery has been awarded to crew member Graham Raines of the Hayling Island lifeboat crew following a very difficult rescue involving two...