AT this time last year, when tendering our sympathy to the earnest bands of "Life-boat Saturday" workers in the unusually arduous labours they had passed through so generously and cheer- fully (such labours resulting from the...
Category: Articles
Re-count. . .
The letter from the honorary secretary of Bodmin and District branch, published in the autumn 1976 issue of THE LIFEBOAT, amused us all here in Trowbridge because the report closely followed our own flag day...
Category: Correspondence
(above) Rother: Length overall 37ft 6in; beam I l f t 6 i n ; draught 3ft 6in; displacement 13 tons: maximum speed, 8 knots; range at full speed, 150 nautical miles. The Rother, introduced in 1973, is a development of the 37ft Oakley and she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At midnight, on the 13th January, 1868, a light being observed on or near the Vrogue Rocks, in a strong wind from the W.S.W., and a heavy ground sea, the Western Commercial Traveller life-boat was despatched to as- certain if there was a...
Some of the lifeboats have taken part in historic events. Plymouth's lifeboat Clemency was present on August 19, 1879, at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Eddystone Lighthouse by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of...
Category: Articles
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 3.57 in the morning on the 4th of August, 1951, the Needles coastguard telephoned the life-boat authorities that the S.S.
Ringwood had reported people from a capsized boat hanging on to Sconce...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th September, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the assistant honorary secietary that a small yacht was making distress signals off Warden Ledge buoy in the West Solent. At...
Harbour rescue saves unconscious manMost of Oban was safely tucked up in bed when the lifeboat crew's pagers sounded at 12.50am on Monday, 16 April. Clyde Coastguard had received a report of a man in the water just off South Pier, in...
Cleethorpes D Class Blue Peter VI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LIFE-BOAT BRINGS EXPECTANT MOTHER TO HOSPITAL Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 8th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that as a result of an exceptional blizzard in Kintyre every road was...