LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dive Boat
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
A Dive Boat (1)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Self-Righting and Non-Self-Righting Life-Boats. Losses Through Capsizing Since 1850
THE discussion in the Press and elsewhere which followed the Rye disaster showed that the public was very far from understanding the relative merits of self-righting Life-boats and of those which do not self-right, or the reasons which...
Category: Articles
A Night Rescue By Torbay
AT 9.20 on the night of the 30th of January, 1952, the Brixham coast- guard saw flashing signals outside Torbay about four miles north-east of Berry Head. They were unread- able, but they seemed to come from a vessel which was making no...
Category: Services
Meetings of Committee, 1852
Thursday, 8th January, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed,— It was resolved, on an application from the Local Committee at Aldborough, Suffolk, to grant from...
Category: Committee
Albert H. Locke
WORTHING.—Signals of distress havingbeen shown on the morning of the 26th January by the brig Albert H. Locke, of Sunderland, bound from Seaham for Portsmonth, coal laden, which stranded about half a mile from Worthing, the Life-boat Henry...
My Hero!
Children's favourite Stormy Stan touched the hearts of these two little girls during a branch collection at South Mimms services on a sunny August weekend. Stan and the Sea Safety roadshow joined volunteers from Potters Bar, Enfield,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE.—A fleet of twenty yawls, engaged in flounder fishing in St. Andrew's Bay, left Broughty Ferry between seven and eight o'clock on the morning of the 4th March, the weather being fine with a moderate breeze from...
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MAY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 8.15 in the evening the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over the cliffs near Berry Head and lay on a ledge of rock close to the water’s edge. At 8.40 the motor life-boat George Shee was launched, taking...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 54 Number 534 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CBE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: JON JONES Advertisement Manager: JOHN FARNHILL...
Category: Contents