LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Empire Prospero
JANUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.15 in the morning the port war signal station telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the North Gare Breakwater.
A strong and increasing north-north-east wind...
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING November and December, 1920, and January, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : — To ROBERT LEES, Esq...
Category: Awards
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 1,572 times, saving 638 lives.
In 1986 lifeboats launched 3,712 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,424 lives (an average of over...
Category: Articles
Service to Junella:
Service to Junella: Just alter midnight on September 29. 1980. Stornoway's 48ft 6in Solent lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Cough, under the command of Coxswain Malcolm MacDonald launched on service to the motor fishing vessel Junella....
Category: Services
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 1.50 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1965, the police at Portmadoc told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy in difficulties at Portmadoc estuary was being swept out to sea on the ebb tide. The coastguard...
The Toaster on the Left - the One With Rnli On
The toaster on the left - the one with RNLI on it - won the golden toaster award (the more conventional one on the right) in Noel Edmonds' Late Late Breakfast Show on BBC TV. The country's most powerful toaster, capable of shooting a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Michael Bowden, Full-Time Coxswain of the Appledore Lifeboat,
Today's lifeboatmen Michael Bowden, full-time coxswain of the Appledore lifeboat, first joined the station in 1971 as a crew member of the all-weather lifeboat.
Michael became an inshore lifeboat crew member in 1973,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (3)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
None (2)
Brighton ls_Atl.antic_s_aves two from pier underwater obstructions and a Force 7 onshore wind A service with chilling echoes of the Silver medal service carried out by the same station nearly four years ago Brighton's Atlantic 75 Thelma...
R/T Distress Procedure Changes
R/T procedure changes THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE modifications introduced in the new edition of the Handbook for Radio Operators should be noted: Control of distress traffic: The word 'PRUDENCE' (pronounced PRU-DONCE) has been...
Category: Articles