LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A leap of faith
When a January storm savaged a sail training crew and their yacht, a lifeboat headed to their aid – but in these violent conditions, what could the RNLI volunteers do to help?
Keen sailor...
Category: Articles
Blue Tango
Yacht aground HEARING, just after 1700 on Sunday September 13, 1981. that a yacht had grounded on the training bank off Buoy C6. Helmsman Edward Brown telephoned the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station. Almost immediately, as...
A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, 1853.
THE Committee regret to have to state that the frequency of shipwrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom, during the past twelve...
Category: Articles
Tic Tac and Fishing Boats Sea Breeze, Kingfisher and Mary Arden
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.30 a.m. on ist October, 1966, four local fishing boats were still at sea between New Quay and Aberystwyth, when a storm was reported. The life-boat St.
Albans was launched at 9.42 in a gale...
Wroxham and District Branch
This magnificent knitted quilt bedspread is the creation of the ladies of Wroxham and District branch. /( caused £700 worth of raffle tickets to be sold for a chance to own it when the branch held a luncheon at the Norfolk Broads Yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Line-Throwing Gun: Use In Japan
THE Line-throwing Gun, which was designed for the Institution in 1922 by the B.S.A., and which is now installed on all Motor Life-boats, except those of the lightest type, has been widely adopted in Japan. There it is being used not only by...
Category: Articles
Tennent Caledonian Girl June Lake Dr Robert Gray Coxswain Ian Johnson
Tfnnent Caledonian Girl June Lake, Dr Robert G'rav, Coxswain Ian Johnson and Mr Ken Mills, director of Tennent Caledonian at the cheaue presentation during October s ceremony.
photograph by courtesy of James P... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Moon Raker
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.59 on the even- ing of the 26th of October, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that two red flares had been seen between three and four miles off Coombe Point.
At 9.25 the life-boat George Shee put...
Santa Lucia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the coastguards reported that a motor yacht was drifting out of control about five miles off Warden Point, one mile south of Red Sands Fort, and flying a flag from...
Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THK Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1962 has been won by Bowman John Kerr, of Blyth, for his part in the rescue of the crew of two of the motor vessel Paullgate on the 18th November. A...
Category: Awards