LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ON 3rd November, 1910, the following notice appeared in the Press :— With a view to economy and to unity of effort and control, the work of collecting money for the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution hitherto done in certain directions...
Category: Articles
A Powered 25ft Pleasure Craft
Family brought ashore ON THE EVENING OF August bank holiday Monday, August 25, 1986, the week of Hurricane Charlie, the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat received a call from the coastguard to say that a family was marooned on their...
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...
Category: Articles
Sparkling Wave, of Sunderland
On the 8th March, the barque Sparkling Wave, of Sunderland, was stranded, and afterwards became a total wreck, on the South Scroby Sand. It was blowing a heavy gale of wind at the time.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat went...
An Aeroplane (19)
SEPT. 18TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At one in the morning it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea. She sank just after the life-boat reached her. There was no sign of her crew. The life-boat again searched...
A Pontoon
Exmouth, Devon - At 4.11 p.m. on 3rd May, 1967, it was learned that the skipper and six men aboard a pontoon laying a new sewer outfall at Dawlish Warren were marooned. The motor boat, which normally serviced the pontoon, was unable to make...
Julian Paul
Ten hour service to disabled fishing vessel in gale force winds The coxswains of both the Penlee and Sennen Cove lifeboats, Neil Brockman and Terry George, have been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal following a joint service to a...
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden opened their garden to the public at Keepers Cottage, Lindfield, West Sussex, last July. It was a beautiful day and their magnificent garden was looking its best for the 597 people who came to enjoy it and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Fishing Boat
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the morning of the 31st October it was learned that a man in a small fishing boat was trying, unsuccessfully, to make harbour.
A whole north-easterly gale was blowing, with a very rough...
The Sailing Trawler Faithful
On 12th November, in response to signals of distress which were observed in the bay soon after 1 A.M., the Life-boat Mary Isabella put to sea, and, after a severe buffeting, found the sailing trawler Faithful, of Ramsey, with her tiller...