LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Schesaplana
Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...
District Inspectors
Captain G. R. Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., who has returned to the Institution from the Navy, has been appointed to the Southern District. During the war he helped to build the Lyness base in Scapa Flow and then took command of H.M.S....
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
The new Troon life-boat, James and Barbara Aitken, was named by Her Grace Mary, Duchess of Montrose, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president of the Isle of Arran branch, on the 9th of July, 1955. The cost of this life-boat...
Category: Inaugurations
A Sailing Dinghy
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.17 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a sailing dinghy, with two boys on board, had capsized in Portland harbour, about a quarter of a mile off Sandsfoot Castle,...
Catherine & Ellen
Again, on the 1st December, the Lifeboat went out in response to signals of distress shown from the schooner Catherine & Ellen, which had been overtaken by strong gale from the N.N.W., and which had brought up far out in the bay. The...
Catherine Latham and Sir Robert
On. the 16th October another gale was experienced, and at 2.30 P.M. signals of distress were shown by the schooners Catherine Latham and Sir Robert, which were anchored in Moelfre Bay. Their crews, numbering in all seven men, were taken into...
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Torbay, Devon - At 10.51 p.m. on ist August, 1966, a boy was reported to have fallen over the cliff at Sharkham point.
At 11.15 tne life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings with a boarding boat in tow. There...
Margate Then...
Last year marked the centenary of the loss of Margate rescue surf boat Friend to all nations along with nine of her crew. The surfboat was operated by a group of local boatmen in tandem with the RNLI lifeboat - generally the same men would... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXXVIII.—WALMER.
Centurion, 36 feet long, 9 feet 4 inches beam, 12 oars.
TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...
Category: Articles
Sir William Corry, Bt
BY the death on 9th June last, in his 68th year, of Sir William Corry, Bt., one of the Directors of the Cunard Line and the Dominion and Commonwealth Line, the Institution lost a friend who for many years had given it the help and advice of...
Category: Obituaries