LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pictured Here Is the First Rescue Boat With a Fibre-Glass Hull to Be Tested Under Operational Conditions
Pictured here is the first rescue boat with a fibre-glass hull to be tested under operational conditions by the R.N.L.I. It is a 17-foot dory built by Dell Quay Productions Ltd., at Itchenor, Sussex. (See pages 464 and 482.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Gallant Salcombe Boy
THE Institution has awarded an in- scribed wrist-watch and a framed letter of thanks to twelve-year-old Michael Dornom, of Salcombe, Devon, who saved the life of a seaman in a south- westerly gale on the 17th of September, 1950. The seaman...
Category: Articles
The Motor Keel Boat Lead Us
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1956, a message was received that the motor keel boat Lead Us. of Whitby, was approaching Whitby harbour in very bad weather.
Later a message was received that because...
The Ex-Motor Launch Prince Siki
DRIFTING ON TO THE NORE SANDS Southend'On-Sea, Essex.—At 5.35 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht was drifting on to the Nore Sands.
The motor life-boat Milburn, on tem-...
A Dutch Life-Boat Rescue
The Scheveningen motor life-boat ZeemansLoop rescuing nine men of a Scheveningen fishing boat, 9th October, 1938. The Secretary of th. North and South Holland Life-saving Society writes: " This was one of the finest and riskiest rescues... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain John Strachan of Peterhead
JOHN R. STRACHAN, a former coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat, died on the 1st of July at the age of 82.
Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the Institution for the rescue of the crew of nine of the trawler...
Category: Obituaries
A Hundred Years Ago
ON the night of the 19th of October last, in a gale of wind, the small sixoared self-righting life-boat belonging to the National Life-boat Institution at Dungeness proceeded through a heavy sea, managed by eight Coast-guard men, to a wreck...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Summary of Its Proceedings from 1st January, 1860, to 31st December, 1862
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Summary of its Proceedings from 1st January, 1860, to 31st December, 1862.
SINCE the beginning of the year 1860, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has...
Category: Annual Reports
Register of Shipwrecks
REGISTER OF SHIPWRECKS ON THE COASTS AND IN THE SEAS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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Category: Articles
Jane Sophia, of Aberystwith
The Royal Berkshire life-boat at Aberdovey brought safely into harbour the stranded schooner Jane Sophia, of Aberyst- with,' and her crew of 5 men, which vessel had gone ashore on the South Bank.