LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
LONG NIGHT SEARCH Hastings, Sussex. At 7 p.m. on 9th February, 1964, the mechanic told the honorary secretary that an angling dinghy was overdue, and it was decided to launch the life-boat. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze with a...
Six Life-Boat Men Drowned on Service
DURING the severe storms last December six Life-boat men lost their lives while on service. Five of them were members of the crew of the Life-boat at Rhos- colyn, in Anglesey, and the sixth be- longed to the Boat at Johnshaven, in...
Category: Services
A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1952 77,747 A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands AT 10.53 on the night of the 13th...
Category: Services
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
Category: Articles
Harwich and Dovercourt Station
Standing in Harwich's Atlantic 21 lifeboat are (I to r) Captain Richard Coolen, honorary secretary of Harwich and Dovercourt station branch, Eric Darvill, chairman of High Wycombe Round Table, with Geoff Rysdale, the immediate past... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ex-Coxswain Robert Smith, of Tynemouth
BY the death of ex-Coxswain Kobert Smith of Tynemouth, on 30th October last, in his eightieth year, one of the greatest of the Institution's Coxswains has passed away. No man more gallantly and more honourably carried on the great...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat
[These verses on an unsuccessful life-boat launch, with their most dramatic ending, were written after a visit to the Kirkcudbright life-boat station by a company of five poets. Their names are recorded in the first stanza and their ages...
Category: Poetry
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FASHION SHOW
Helensburgh sailing club, Argyll and...
Category: Articles
Viera-Y-Clarijo
During fine weather on 17th February the Life- boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was called out to the assistance of a vessel making signals of distress. On arrival she found the vessel was on the sands.
She proved to be a...
Brita, a Shetland Type Motor Boat, and Angling Boat Ondermining
Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.
At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...