LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vortigern
POLPEAR, LIZARD.—On the 6th August, the Life-boat Edmund and Fanny was launched at 9 a.m., and proceeded to the four-masted barque Vortigern, of and from London, bound for Calcutta with a cargo of jute. She was found to be safely anchored ia...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 2 November show that so far during 1990: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,594 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,190 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3...
Category: Articles
Nan
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 12.55 a.m. on 3rd May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that anxiety was being felt for the safety of a fishing party of some nine or ten people who had not returned to...
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Category: Articles
Widder
TOWED BY TUG Walmer, Kent. At 3.30 p.m. on 9th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he was watching the German motor vessel Widder, as she appeared to be in difficulties in the rough sea near Goodwin Fork. A local...
Service By Clovelly
IN the autumn number of The Life-boat Clovelly appeared in the list of launches in July, 1950, in which no services were done.
There was, in fact, a service. At 9.15 on the night of the 8th, the Hart- land Point coastguard...
Category: Services
Nerves of steel
In a nail-biting service, Donaghadee lifeboat crew battled to save three lives. Would the Coxswain keep cool and reach the sailors in time?
Rudely awoken at 2.15am on 13 September 2009, the County Down crew sprang into...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Doubled Annuities
LAST year the Institution greatly increased the retaining fees paid to the officers of life-boats. It also increased the payments made to crews and launchers for exercise launches, and brought in a new scale of rewards for services.
Category: Articles
Vintage Occasion
Vintage occasion The Belton and O'Neill families from Oxted, Surrey have entered the Beaulieu and Weymouth vintage car rally for the last six years. This is put on by the Wimborne branch of the RNLI and organised by the National... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs