LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Atlantis
ENGINE FAILURE Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 p.m. on nth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Atlantis then two miles south-west of Littlehampton had broken down with engine trouble and...
A Motor Boat
Stranded on rocks ON HEARING FROM BARRY COASTGUARD, at 2220 on Saturday, September 13, 1975, that red flares had been reported to the west of Brean Down, the honorary secretary of Weston-super-Mare gave instructions for the maroons to be...
Siskin
Fishermen stranded by engine failure There are many situations that a lifeboat coxswain does not look forward to.
Bad weather, manoeuvring with boats close together, towing a heavy, unwieldy vessel, waiting at sea for the...
The Captured Boats
The last that the Institution heard of its life-boats in Jersey and Guernsey before the Germans captured the Channel Islands was on June 29th. 1940. They had been ordered to sail for Cowes, but that afternoon Jersey telephoned that the...
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The Newhaven lifeboat was also involved in the rescue caught in the dramatic photograph (left) from the harbour wall on 24 July, 1988.
A swimmer, visible under the lifeboat's starboard bow, is being hauled from the...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part III—In Frame
so, THE KEEL is LAID. A baulk of teak, shaped to match templates taken off the full size lines plans drawn out on the loft floor. It rests on blocks so set that they will bring the boat up to a convenient height for building. The keel slopes...
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Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution and by Shore-boats during 1941 During the year life-boats were launched 747 times. Of these launches 481 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other...
Category: Services
Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby
A VERY generous friend of the Life-boat Services of Great Britain and Norway passed away by the death on the llth November last, at the age of seventy- five, of Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. She had lived there for...
Category: Obituaries
Antaeus
The RNLI's chief of operations has written to the St Helier lifeboat station expressing thanks for the way in which the crew of the station's new Tyne class lifeboat Alexander Coutanche handled a service during the storm of 25...
Around the Coast
A LARGE CROWD gathered at Selsey on April 25 for the handing over and dedication of the station's new D class lifeboat which is the gift of Selsey Lions Club. The lifeboat was presented by Mr A. E. Ryan, president of Selsey Lions, to...
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