LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
Section Services by RNLB Shoreline The 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat, Shoreline, stationed at Arbroath in Scotland and paid for out of the proceeds of a special appeal to recruit new Shoreline members, carried out a noteworthy service in...
Category: Articles
Jeanine of Hamble
South Eastern Division Catamaran in Distress A WELL-REEFED CATAMARAN making heavy weather two-and-a-half miles off St Margaret's, Kent, was seen by the Coastguard at 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 21, 1973. Dover lifeboat station was put...
Top: The Indomitable Keith (centre) And His Rescuers Are Safe At Last
Top: The indomitable Keith (centre) and his rescuers are safe at last. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishing Trawler Onedin and a Motor Fishing Boat
January gales A HALFDECKER motor fishing boat was seen to be dragging her anchors off Arranmore, Aran Island, on the afternoon of Wednesday January 11, 1984.
A gale was blowing from the north west, the seas were very rough...
Generous Scottish Ladies. Gifts and Legacies of £92,392 In Eleven Years
A REMARKABLE feature of life-boat appeals during recent years has been the number of gifts for building motor life-boats for the Scottish coast received from ladies in Scotland. Since the beginning of 1928 nine such gifts have been received,...
Category: Donations
The Gardens of Sheffield Park
FOR many years before the war the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, in Sussex, were opened to the public and the entrance money given to charity.
In 1949, for the first time since the war, they were again opened, for five...
Category: Donations
A Boat
LIFE-BOAT HOLED BY CASUALTY A SMALL BOAT in a dangerous position off the West Hoyle Bank on 27th August, 1971, led to the Hoylake, Cheshire, life-boat Thomas Corbett being launched at 10.27 a.m.
The wind was west north west...
IRB Launches (2)
SOUTHERN DISTRICT Eastney, Hampshire - At 3.10 p.m.
on i4th May, 1966, a member of the IRB crew informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off the Royal Marine Barracks. At 3.15 the IRB was launched...
Category: Services
The Wherry Uncle George
BOYS ADRIFT At 5.17 p.m. on 27th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three boys were adrift in an 18-foot wherry. Despite the light southeasterly breeze there was a thick fog with visibility down to 50 yards and a...